Light Blue - Semester 1 2021 by Geelong Grammar School

ISSUE 108 SEMESTER 1, 2021

“The power of conversation” was chosen as the theme for our 2021 Staff Conference in direct response to the disruption of COVID-19. The theme acknowledged the importance of connection, of sharing ideas, and of learning from one another in the process. Conversation is the ultimate human-interest activity. It is an antidote to the social isolation of COVID-19 and the social media silos of the modern age, where the information superhighway is often diverted to amplify our pre-existing biases and beliefs. Meaningful conversation requires an open mind. “The power of conversation” was discussed in assemblies, classrooms and Chapel, with each conversation growing in magnitude across Term 1 as a wave of sexual assault allegations swept the corridors of Australian parliament and a petition calling for a greater focus on consent in education sparked a national conversation about gender inequality, sexual harassment and violence against women. To be heard, you need someone to listen. These were confronting and complex cultural and social issues that required careful, thoughtful and deliberate listening.

Editor: Brendan McAloon Design: Chloe Flemming Claire Robson Photographers: Mike Howell Peter Lemon (FB’64) Pom Mackenzie (Russell, The Hermitage ‘70) Jill Nicholls (Holmes, The Hermitage ‘68) Katie Rafferty (Spry, Ga’84) Drew Ryan Anna Tucker (Kimpton, Clyde ‘71) Contributors: Sophie Church Katie Rafferty (Spry, Ga’84) Nick Sculley Website: www.ggs.vic.edu.au Email: lightblue@ggs.vic.edu.au

In Term 2, our theme evolved into “conversations we need to have”. These were enlightening, energising and honest conversations about issues like respect, consent and reconciliation. They were not always easy conversations, but they were almost always civilised discussions that navigated nuance and disagreement, illuminated by empathy and understanding – a far cry from the dark corners inhabited by keyboard warriors spreading disinformation and hate speech. “At GGS, conversations are imbued with our belief that young people will shape a better world – one that is decent, respectful and just,” our Principal, Rebecca Cody, explained. Our conversations had travelled a long way in one semester, but they still have such a long way to go. Brendan McAloon Director of Community Engagement

↓ CHAIR OF COUNCIL Paddy Handbury (M’72) and Tim Fairfax AC (M’64)

OUR PRINCIPAL Conversations

HOW CONVERSATIONS ARE HELPING OUR LEARNERS

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10 OUR SENIOR CHAPLAIN Five ways to healthy conversations

12 12 CLASS OF 2020 Results and Destinations 14 MIDDLE SCHOOL 14 BOSTOCK HOUSE

18 HAWKER LIBRARY

24 FOUNDATION

20 BATTLE OF THE BANDS

28 MAIL ROOM

22 BREAKING NEW GROUND Georgia Gall (Yr11 Ga)

36 THE TWINS Greg Fleet (A’79) and Ian Darling (P’79)

16 TIMBERTOP 17 TOORAK

40 CAREERS DAY 42 OGG PRESIDENT

44 HOGA 45 COGA 46 5 YEAR REUNION 48 OGG SPORT 52 PETER Peter Hatzoglou (A‘16) 54 CORIO BOOK CLUB

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Our Chair of Council, Paddy Handbury (M’72), in conversation with the recipient of the 2021 Geelong Grammar School Medal for Service to Society, farmer and philanthropist Tim Fairfax AC (M’64) PADDY: Tim, before we start, did you go to Cranbrook prior to Geelong? TIM: I did. I started off at Cranbrook and then I went to a little prep school called Tudor House at Moss Vale, so it was from Tudor House that I went to Geelong (in 1960). PADDY: How did you find coming from those environments to land at Geelong Grammar? TIM: It was such a wet and cold place. I mean Moss Vale was cold, it used to get cold in winter there, but I never acclimatised to Corio Bay. PADDY: It was pretty tough, especially if you were out on a balcony with just a rolled-up canvas curtain. TIM: Exactly! PADDY: What do you think was the biggest impact the School had on you? TIM: I was reflecting the other day that because I had been brought up with a privileged background, one of the greatest impacts on me was talking to staff like the janitor and the matron, and getting to know real people. In Manifold House, we had a fellow called Stan who did all the cleaning and he was a typical Australian character. Then there was a lady in the sewing room who did all the mending and sewing. They were just salt of the earth and for me, it was being able to talk to them and get to know what real Australians were like. When you come from a very privileged background, you really only mix with privileged people, so that really did have an everlasting effect on me.

PADDY: That is a common thread for our alumni. This is going to sound like a silly question because when you look at what your family has done, particularly your father [Vincent Fairfax (M’28)], how and why philanthropy? What was it that introduced you to philanthropy? TIM: It was discussed at the table; eating porridge, philanthropy was part of the conversation. It wasn’t drilled into us, but it was part of the conversation and we were expected to give back. PADDY: There’s the power of conversation for you. Through talking about it, it becomes the norm. I have similar reflections of conversations with my mother and father. TIM: I’m sure you do. PADDY: Is there a point that you remember the first time you gave. I think that I can. Do you remember the first time and what that felt like? TIM: I suppose when I think about it, when I left Geelong in ’64, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I went to New Guinea as a volunteer teacher in an Anglican missionary school. I spent a year there doing that and that was totally voluntary service, so that was probably the start of my giving, not in a monetary sense, but giving of what little skills that I had as a teacher in a missionary school. Today, you’d call it a gap year, but in those days, there was no such thing. It enabled me to think about what I wanted to do with my life because I couldn’t make up my mind if I wanted to go to university or not. PADDY: Philanthropy comes in many different guises. TIM: That’s right. I think we’ve got to remember that.

PADDY: That’s interesting because my mother [Helen Handbury (Murdoch, Clyde’46)] came from a similar background, was sent from St Catherine’s to Clyde, and spoke of exactly the same experience. It clearly had a big impact on both of your lives. What would be your favourite memory of Geelong Grammar? TIM: Timbertop was a great experience and one that I really enjoyed.

PADDY: I’ve got a list of the things you’re involved in, boards you are on or have been on, from being Chancellor of QUT [Queensland University of Technology], President of the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation, Deputy Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia, Chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board. The list does go on. Of course, you are also the LIGHT BLUE - GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL

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TIM: It’s mainly because having had a rural property myself which I worked for 20 years, we brought up the kids there, so living in a rural community, you get to know the inadequacies. When I left the bush, I was very passionate that people in rural and regional Australia should have the same quality of life and opportunities as those living in metropolitan towns. PADDY: The arts and education obviously play an important part in that and supporting rural communities. TIM: If we can give our kids in rural and regional Australia a better deal, then I’m right behind it. That’s really what FRRR does. PADDY: Do you have a favourite programme or project that you’ve been involved in? Is there one that has given you the most satisfaction? TIM: Probably having our own foundation [the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation] and working through that to help others. That’s something I started 12 years ago with the aim of giving people in rural and regional Queensland and the Northern Territory a better deal. PADDY: You’ve done extraordinary work with that Tim. The one that I get a lot of satisfaction out of being on the committee of is the Tackling Tough Times Together programme, which you and [your wife] Gina kicked off and continue to support incredibly generously. For me, it hit a nerve. I think you know that I’ve had issues with mental health in the past and you’ve talked about beating the black dog. Again, it’s through having conversations, because it’s the first thing you seem to do when you get into these holes is you immediately go back within yourself and stop communicating. TIM: Basically, having experienced a drought, it was very close to my heart. I knew what other people were going through and so this was a great avenue to help them in some way through. PADDY: There is a place called William Creek. It wasn’t a big grant from the TTTT programme, but for the people around there who had suffered five years of extraordinary drought, the impact was immense.

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TIM: It’s through those little stories that you know it’s making a difference. PADDY: You’ve been honoured and recognised a few times. TIM: And now you’re embarrassing me by recognising me with this award! PADDY: How did feel when you received the letter from Rebecca? TIM: I was very humbled, honestly. There are so many Old Geelong Grammarians who have gone out and achieved, so you always ask, ‘‘why me?’’. Hopefully, I’ve made a contribution, but I don’t think I’ve made a contribution that stands out more so than other Old Geelong Grammarians who have given service to society. PADDY: We can’t recognise everybody, but you are very worthy of recognition. You are right that a lot of people do go out and provide service to society. Why do you think that’s important? TIM: Part of your development and growth as a human is giving back. It doesn’t necessarily have to be monetary. When I was Chancellor of QUT and I used to do all the graduations, I would always remind those graduates that life wasn’t always about them – that they should all use their skills and expertise to contribute to society in a worthwhile way. PADDY: I couldn’t agree with you more. I believe your least favourite thing is being noticed, but I don’t know how you can not be noticed with all the wonderful stuff you do. The School is very proud to have a member of our community like you, Tim, that leads and sets such an extraordinary example for future generations of Geelong Grammar School students. Thank you, Tim. TIM: Thank you, Paddy. I’m going red.

‘‘They were just salt of the earth and for me, it was being able to talk to them and get to know what real Australians were like.’’

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Chair of the FRRR [Foundation of Rural and Regional Renewal]. It’s a wide range of different organisations but there is a thread of visual arts, education and rural and regional development. Why are those areas important to you?

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This meaning is consistent with the parts of the body being members by contributing to the wellbeing of the whole body; or the people in a team or a workplace being members by contributing to the wellbeing of the whole team or the whole workplace. Each member contributes their gifts and abilities to the benefit of the body, or the benefit of the team, or the benefit of the workplace. And the better educated the person’s gifts and abilities are, the more they will excel at being a partner and helper who contributes to the wellbeing of the whole. Excel as a member. Excel as belonging. This year, our overarching motif for staff and students is conversation. Perhaps initially chosen in response to the disconnection of 2020, its power and need have been spotlighted across Semester 1. By invitation of a past Geelong Grammar parent and grandparent, in early May I welcomed the opportunity to lend my voice to an age-old and ever meaningful conversation – educating for a better society. The identity, health and culture of our country are only as strong as the young people our community raises. Instead of thinking of schools as centres to reform all social ills, we might be better placed to reflect upon the positive difference that collective responsibility releases. This is not to suggest stepping aside from schools’ accountabilities; rather, it is about intentionally sharing the important work of shaping society through quality engagement and education of our youth. This should not just be the business of parents, teachers, and grandparents. Of course, any contemplation of how we educate for a better society reveals an orbit of ideas spanning the centuries. How best we can live together and how we personally can lead a more dignified and sustainable life, can be stimulated through reading and conversation. The more I read and converse, the more certain I feel about knowing very little and the stronger my yearning to return to school and begin all over again! Ideally, this opportunity would skip the mess of puberty and teenage angst, and centre on the curriculum of ideals. Through the miracles of modern science, time transportation might gift me Plato and Aristotle as teachers. Thousands of years later, their holistic understanding of all elements of human nature – both the positive and the destructive – continues to guide education in its broadest sense. Their concept of the three parts of the human psyche, consisting in spirit, appetite, and reason, remains evocative in this contemporary context. For these classical philosophers, a flourishing human being was one whose reason was in control of their spirit and appetite, much as a charioteer oversaw two horses. The role of educators is to encourage reason to be in control of our actions, and to nurture in our students a perpetual delight in learning, logic, and courageous behaviour. For me, this is about enabling wise voices and choices to emerge through the engagement of the head, heart, and hands. We want our students to lead both a purposeful life and a flourishing life. Arguably, without purpose, there is no capacity to flourish. Plato’s The Republic suggests that to flourish is to live as a member of society who is both a partner and a helper. He went further, to ask what this really means, living as a partner and helper. Plato’s answer speaks to cultivating one’s intrinsic gifts and abilities and contributing them to the wellbeing of the whole of society.

This fundamental idea of Plato’s meant that, for him, education is the process of drawing out a person’s intrinsic sense of membership and belonging by enabling them to contribute their gifts and abilities to the wellbeing of the whole. It is in this, Plato believed, that true human recognition is found. The recognition of belonging, dignity, and respect. Plato was also well aware that human beings have the capacity to let these foundational truths about their nature as human beings allude them in pursuit of individual gain, individual advantage and individual success. This, he insisted, was contrary to true human happiness because we are profoundly in need of one another’s gifts and abilities, and we are profoundly in need of these gifts and abilities being cultivated and contributed, which is to say, we are profoundly in need of being educated. Finally, Plato believed, human beings must learn how to live together, or they will not live at all. They will be continually torn apart by division and war. There need not be a battle for conflict, tension, and segregation to abound. Across four campuses with 700 staff, close to 1,600 students, including 800 boarders and even more families, as well as a broader community of tens of thousands of Old Geelong Grammarians, past parents and staff, there’s ample fodder for unrest as we adapt to what being a partner and helper means. Within this context, plus a myriad of items of compliance and daily care for so many, I reflect frequently upon three concepts and their allied questions. Firstly, how to unearth the courage of prioritising and modelling ethicality. I regularly describe this to students as safeguarding one another’s dignity within a framework of, “saying what you mean, meaning what you say and walking your talk”. Remembering to ask, “How do my words and deeds align?” is a quick and accessible self-checking mechanism that denotes self-respect.

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Secondly, when facing difficult decisions, I often think about the question posed by the contemporary British-Ghanaian philosopher, Kwame Appiah: “What will future generations condemn us for?” This deceptively simple question centres what we know we should do, and somehow cuts through the noise of vested interests, competing values, misinformation, and support for the status quo. It is a pertinent thought experiment with particular potency when considering how it is we right the wrongs of child abuse, and violence against women; of how we respect mother earth; of how we honour indigeneity; and how we care for the elderly and those with disability. Thirdly, it is vital to provide authentic opportunities for students to practise their own moral judgement and ethical skills in a relevant context. At Geelong Grammar, this is partly woven into our ways of being as we learn and live together on a scale unknown anywhere else in Australia and second only to Eton College. Due to our scale and truly global population, the impact of COVID-19 pressure-tested our structures, systems and staff in ways not experienced before (or at least in living memory). There were sacrifices to be made in terms of usual freedoms and for many of our students, community safety trumped individual desires in expressions previously unknown.

‘‘I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.’’ Plato Resistance to measures such as the mask wearing and the hysteria of toilet paper stockpiling, that has now transferred to vaccine stock piling, are all symptomatic of fear. For Plato, “courage is knowing what not to fear” and for Aristotle, we “will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of mind next to honour.” One of the duties of the principalship is to drive fear out of schools, so that new teachers – and experienced ones too – feel that they are guided to determine the best outcomes for our community. They can ask for help, without fear. They can discuss difficult situations and wicked problems, without fear. They are confident that they will be met with wisdom and support.

For me, a common cause of disappointment is that our fear of recrimination or ostracism stops us from standing firm in our capacity to shut down a disrespectful, ill-informed, and harmful crowd. In this space of disagreement, an emerging dying art may well be the intersection of active listening and seeking to understand through the conventions of civilised conversations. The normalisation of unpleasantness, harassment, superiority, and unchecked power (oftentimes activated by keyboard warriors or twittering assassins), damages relationships and can be a cumulative poison. In sourcing the courage and clarity to intervene, the question, “Why am I permitting fear to dominate?”, helps reset a course of action.

Just asking these questions stimulates possibilities. I have come to recognise that the most important exchanges have proven consistently to be those motivated by such curiosity. Inherent in this virtue are vulnerability and humility. Their significance becomes apparent if you subscribe to the view that individuals yearn to be heard, understood and useful. This too is connected to an intrinsic sense of dignity and how it is protected if, as partners and helpers, we are agents of moral courage. Moral agency is so important because the society we are born and socialised into has major structural defects that express themselves in both group and individual behaviour. Just as we all do, our young people encounter injustice, greed, laziness, shoddiness, cronyism, deception and so much more. They may even be promised a certain kind of success with enticing rewards if they subscribe to these unhealthy cultures; yet it will be this behaviour that tears at the fabric of society and that stands in direct opposition to working as a partner and helper. The only antidote to this temptation in a person, said Plato and Aristotle, is a heightened sense of their dignity as a human being and the moral courage not only to refuse participation in such behaviour, but to call it out. We can only learn about dignity, courage, and respect when we are the recipients: when we see it in action, when others lead by example. Universally, ethics and education partner to examine the frameworks that underpin our society and how the greatest minds have approached perennial questions on how best to live, lead and learn. Whilst we don’t have to agree with all that we read and talk about, we must use others’ thinking to inform and scaffold contemporary practice, and to bring clarity to what dignity, courage, respect and belonging look and sound like in 2021. In doing so, we may need to leave a fear of change behind, sit with doubt and restlessness, step with grace and grit, and walk with hope. With the Aristotelian exemplar of roaming and debating with open-minded scholars, and pondering with peers, we may well find the impetus to run rejoicingly as moral agents who use the clarity of our voice and the legacy of our choices in a collective quest to redefine our “true blue” citizenship. Rebecca Cody Principal

This article is an edited extract of Rebecca’s address to the International Table Luncheon at The Australian Club on Monday 3 May. You can read the full address on the Our Principal page of the School website: www.ggs.vic.edu.au/Our-Principal

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For educators, this mechanism does well to include making thinking visible. The principalship, for example, includes facing the most unexpected challenges and at such times, where appropriate, it is important for colleagues and students to see how you have thought about the complexity, the context, risks and choices you have considered before arriving at an outcome, and why you have determined this to be the best course of action. If we don’t bring clarity to complexity and unpack our thinking, we may be denying the next generation the opportunity to understand and develop their own wisdom.

↓ WHAT IS COACHING? In a coaching relationship, the coach and the learner (or coachee) engage in one-to-one conversation that is goal-oriented and solutions-focused. Coaching is different to mentoring because it does not involve the transferring of skills and knowledge from one more experienced person to another, or role modelling a desired behaviour. Mentoring is vital, and at GGS our house mentors fill the important role of first responders to pastoral and learning needs. They cultivate connections to each student’s pastoral base – their house – and provide a first point of contact for parents and staff. By contrast, the learning coach supports their coachee to be actively responsible for their own personal development in a holistic sense. Director of Student Engagement and Experience, Rhiannon McGee, explains that coaching fits naturally within our school’s pillar of Positive Education: “Positive psychology and coaching complement each other, but where Positive Education explores broad concepts such as the benefits of gratitude for wellbeing, coaching is a more individual approach with specific goals and targets identified and worked towards.” Essentially, coaching means asking the right questions to enable an individual to self-regulate their learning and development.

Conversations are taking place all over Geelong Grammar School! In itself, this statement seems unremarkable, but in 2021 the new role of learning coach was introduced and with it a powerful new conversation tool that supports learners to identify and pursue the individual targets that matter to them. Learning coaches are teachers who meet regularly with a group of approximately 15 students from the same year level. Extending across the secondary programme at Corio (Years 7 and 8, and 10 to 12), there are 53 coaches across the School, all of whom are in the process of completing training to develop key coaching skills with the specific aim of increasing student wellbeing and performance.

HOW DOES COACHING WORK AT GGS? The students in each coaching group come from different school houses, promoting peer-to-peer connections within a co-educational context outside of the house setting. Each group is therefore a diverse mix of genders and personalities, providing an authentic environment in which to promote respectful relationships and engage in meaningful conversations. “A key focus in respectful relationships is on the stereotypes and norms that contribute to gender inequity”, explains Rhiannon. “By opening up discussion and debate that perhaps helps to break down some misconceptions, we are encouraging our students to keep an open mind as they mature into adults.” A curriculum framework supports the delivery of a learning programme which takes place over six timetabled periods per fortnight, one of which is allocated to the community-building activity of school assembly. The curriculum is delivered by the learning coaches, as well as external learning facilitators who have been engaged to share their expertise in areas such as drug and alcohol awareness or developing good study habits. One-on-one coaching conversations are integrated within the learning programme, and each coachee meets with their coach on average three times per term.

‘‘Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters …’’ Margaret Wheatley

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Two specific programmes have been developed to support the coaching approach across the secondary years. In Middle School, years 7 and 8 students undertake the Navigate programme. The focus during these younger years is on skills for learning and personal wellbeing, as well as understanding what it means to belong to a community. The learning coach facilitates self-directed learning experiences through which the student identifies and pursues personal goals. For example, this might be lifting a grade in maths, or auditioning for the school musical.

The coaching programme at GGS supports student learners to develop self-efficacy and autonomy as they progress on their school journey. In Middle School, understanding how to be an active and engaged community member is an important focus as students set and pursue individual goals. In Senior School, the focus shifts towards how individuals can best serve communities as purposeful participants in their lives after school. With growing self-confidence comes improved academic performance, increased emotional intelligence and enhanced resilience, all of which provides the sense of hopefulness that is so essential to shaping a complex and changing world. The conversation starts at school … but where it goes next is what really matters.

In Senior School, the Pathways programme supports students to make purposeful choices by focusing on skills for learning and personal wellbeing, as well as career and tertiary pathways, and service. In these crucial final years of schooling, the learning coach plays a vital role in enabling students to care for their mental health, become socially and culturally aware, think strategically and, importantly, understand the value of community service. This includes a specific focus on leadership skills, which is especially targeted at Year 11 students as they prepare to become school and house leaders in Year 12. “The Year 12s in my Pathways group have come to coaching conversations with an openness and willingness to ‘give it a go’; it has been immensely rewarding to see these incredible young people actively seeking help and identifying strategies for growth and improvement,” observed learning coach Katherine Barton. Each term, students complete a student action plan which identifies their goals for the term and the pathways towards achieving them. Throughout the term, learning coaches check in with their coachees to review their goals, helping them to adapt and revise their strategies as obstacles are encountered and overcome. Heads of house and house mentors view the action plans as part of the holistic and integrated model of pastoral care on offer at GGS.

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After the resurrection, the disciples didn't immediately recognise Jesus, probably because they assumed He was dead. This was in spite of the many conversations that He had with them telling them that He would return. His followers could be excused for assuming that anyone who came back from the dead would make a song and dance about it. Jesus could, for example, have decided to climb the temple steps to make a grand announcement, or to confront Pontius Pilate and the religious leaders. He did none of this. Instead, He did something that they never assumed He would do. He simply went back to His close friends with one purpose in mind – to engage in conversation.

It is vital to focus on facts because without them ‘fake news’ prevails. Doubting Thomas did this. He wanted to see if Jesus’s comeback was fake news or not. He said that unless I see Jesus, unless I see the holes where the nails and spear went in, I will not believe. And Jesus lets Thomas do just that. Allowing the tough questions to be asked by both adult and child is important, and we should allow it. Conversation kills fake news because we can ask questions, verify accounts, and challenge views.

‘‘If we have already made our mind up, conversations simply won’t happen’’

Jesus knew that the human condition was prone to assume, and that in order to challenge assumptions, He would need to have in depth conversations, which involved listening deeply as well as talking. One conversation wasn’t going to be enough to reassure them, it would take several. It would take debate. It would involve challenging questions. Without conversations, we tend to remain stuck in our well-worn assumptions. Assumptions thrive in the absence of conversations and can be toxic, judgemental, and simply incorrect. Assumptions are dangerous because they can send you on a path that leads to misunderstandings and down blind alleys that lead nowhere. Even if we decide to talk, if we let assumptions override discussion, then the conversation isn’t going to really be a conversation at all because we assume that we already have all the answers! If we have already made our mind up, conversations simply won’t happen or, if they do, the value of the conversation is undermined and devalued. When it comes to having healthy family conversations, it is dangerous to assume.

2. Whilst it is true that sometimes we just need to stop talking and listen, it is also the case that talking can be good and that silence can be unhelpful. Whilst we don’t like to admit that we’re struggling or anxious or feeling flat, sharing this with someone we trust can be an incredibly powerful and significant step on the way back to mental and emotional wellbeing. We remind our students that our GGS family includes a rich variety of people they are able to talk to – Heads and Assistant Heads of House (or Unit at Timbertop), classroom teachers, tutors, coaches, counsellors, Chaplains, and friends. Silence is not always golden.

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4. You may have heard of the term ‘cancel culture’. Cancel culture is a modern form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles, whether it be online, on social media, or in person. Those who are subject to this ostracism are said to have been ‘cancelled’. Jesus doesn't cancel people. His aim is to restore them and to include them. You may remember the three acts of denial by the Apostle Peter and the conversation Jesus had with Peter during the Last Supper, when Jesus foretold that this would happen. Jesus predicted that Peter would deny and disown Him, would cancel Him not once, not twice but three times “before the cock crows”. And Peter does just that. After the resurrection, Jesus had another conversation with Peter. Jesus asked Peter three times if Peter loved Him. The beauty of this conversation is that Jesus cancels the guilt and shame of Peter’s actions by asking him three questions that would cancel the three denials so that Peter can be fully restored and included. Jesus has a heart to include. God has a heart to include. So must we. Our conversations must seek to be inclusive as opposed to exclusive. Our conversations must seek to include a wide variety viewpoints and questions if they are to be healthy conversations.

5. Another term you may be familiar with is ‘stay woke’, which originated from Erykah Badu’s song ‘Master Teacher’ and has come to mean being self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better. We can strive for something better in and through our family conversations by staying alert, by moving out of entrenched positions and/or mindsets that are comfortable but stagnant, by putting assumptions to one side, by not reverting to silence and using it as a weapon, by striving for accuracy in the face of fake news and by being inclusive. Finally, plan for your conversation not to be the only conversation you have. Plan to have a ‘to be continued’ tag, so your conversation is part of a series, ongoing, normal, and healthy. Rev Gordon Lingard Senior Chaplain

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There is great power in conversation. The theme for Chapel in Term 2 has been ‘Conversations we need to have’. At the beginning of term, I addressed the Family Day gathering on the more particular topic of ‘Conversations we need to have as families’. Families who understand the power of conversation and therefore the importance of conversation tend to be healthy families. Wellbeing in the family context depends a great deal on the quality of the conversations we are prepared to have. I suggested five ways to have healthy conversations:

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RESULTS & DESTINATIONS – Laurenz Watters (A’20) is the School’s Dux for 2020. Laurenz achieved an IB score 44 out of a possible 45, which equates to an ATAR of 99.75. – Sharron Yuan (Ga’20) is Proxime Accessit for the Class of 2020, having achieved an IB score of 43. Sharron is studying Design at the University of Melbourne.

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– Ruby Burgess-Hoar (EM’20) was our top VCE performer having achieved an ATAR of 97.45. Ruby is studying a double degree, Communications/ Law, at the University of Technology Sydney. – Nine IB students achieved an ATAR score of 99 or better: Laurenz Watters, Sharron Yuan, Guy Caldwell, Samson Cheung, Harriet Furphy, Sunny Lu, Aden Strong, Florian Watters and Sidney White.

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– Seven VCE students achieved an ATAR score of 93 or better: Ruby Burgess-Hoar, Briony Hoh, Fergus Jacoby, Hannah Scott, Sam Wagstaff, Anthony Dai, Maia Love and Flynn Angus.

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“We both just want each other to do their best.”

Laurenz Watters (A'20) and Florian Watters (A'20) Florian and Laurenz started their Geelong Grammar School journey together in Year 1 at Bostock House. They have excelled in the classroom together; Laurenz was Dux of the Class of 2020, achieving an IB score of 44, while Florian achieved a score of 42. They have excelled on the sporting fields together; both Florian and Laurenz represented the School in 1st Soccer during the winter and 1st Tennis in the summer. They have performed - together and separately - in front of our School community on a variety of occasions, including the 2019 Leavers’ Celebration and Battle of the Bands. In 2020, as students shifted to remote learning, they studied together; assisting one another in an unconventional year. “It was extremely helpful having Laurenz at home to work together,” Florian said. “Personally, I found it hard to concentrate 12

in the Zoom classes. I found myself doing a lot more independent study and having him there made it better because we could do our own thing together.” The pair spent their Senior School years in Allen House, which had particularly strong results in 2020 with eight students achieving an ATAR of 90 or above. “We had a whole group of people who liked each other a lot, and that just makes it easier for collaborative work and studying together,” Florian said. After 13 years sporting the light blue, Laurenz is ready for the next phase of life. “I really enjoyed my time at the School but now I'm ready to do something different.” That ‘something different’, in the case of both Laurenz and Florian, is studying biomedicine at the University of Melbourne. LIGHT BLUE - GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL

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Briony Hoh (A'20) Briony Hoh was one of our top-performing VCE students, achieving an ATAR of 97.25. One of our Visual Arts captains and recipient of the 2020 Design and Technology Prize, Briony is passionate about fashion and had always planned to study abroad post-GGS. Briony received an offer to study Fashion Design at London College of Fashion, one of six colleges that makes up the University of Arts London (UAL), a top-two university in the world for art and design. “I applied to schools in both London and New York, and was lucky enough to have the choice of a few different universities,” she explained. “I chose UAL due to the range of their degrees, the calibre of their alumni and the strength of their programmes. The UK’s handling of the pandemic, compared to other countries, meant I would have the opportunity to learn in-person rather than online.” Applying for a fashion/design course overseas meant that for Briony, there was more riding on individual grades and her folio submissions than an ATAR. “There is more grade pressure (rather than overall score requirements), which I guess filtered through to my ATAR,” she said. The process of applying for overseas can be quite daunting. Thankfully for our students, the support is there in abundance. “PC (Head of Careers Peter Craig), Mrs Haigh, Fitzy (Head of Allen House, Shem Fitzgerald) and Mrs McCartney were among the most supportive in helping me to submit my applications, write references and help me with the folios I applied with, so I’m very grateful for all of their help,” Briony said. She will commence at UAL in September 2021.

Harriet Furphy (Cl'20) Harriet was one of several Geelong Grammar School students who received an early offer from ANU as part of their early entry scheme, spurred by COVID-19, which allowed students to apply for a tertiary place based on their Year 11 results. Harriet was offered a spot to complete a double degree of engineering and advanced computing – her first preference – in August 2020, with the rider that she needed to pass IB and her maths component. “I think it should make me enjoy the rest of my year a lot more as I don’t have the stress of achieving a certain ATAR,” Harriet said at the time. “Of course, I will still try to do as well as I can,” she added. Fast forward to January 3rd and the release of results. Harriet was one of six GGS students to achieve an IB score of 42 (which equates to an ATAR of 99.20), the third-highest score among last year’s cohort, behind Florian Watters and Sharron Yuan. While the need to achieve a score can be a powerful motivator, so can the desire to test yourself and repay those who invested so much in you. “My teachers had done so much for me, especially last year, so I wanted to make the most of that support.”

Sidney White (EM'20) Sidney achieved an IB score of 42, which translates to an ATAR of 99.20, and is studying a double degree of Law / Science at Monash University this year; a destination she labels “a dream come true”. Sidney credits the support from her House, Elisabeth Murdoch, and the School as a whole, for her ability to come through a tumultuous year with such outstanding results. “Having the girls around me made such a difference to my mental health, and my ability to maintain a consistent study routine throughout the year,” she said. “The continued positivity of my teachers and their endless support and assistance made such a difference to my learning, and I know my year wouldn’t have been as successful without their help.” From Wirlina in the Riverina region of NSW, Sidney came to GGS in Year 11 and quickly found a second home at the School’s Equestrian Centre (EQ). “I have really treasured my time at the EQ. It has such a supportive environment, where everyone looks out for one another and cheers each other on, whether that be during success or failure. I was so grateful when we were able to bring our horses back onto campus (post-lockdown), and I found riding to be such a beneficial activity throughout the year, for my physical and mental health.” On receiving her results, Sidney said she felt “ecstatic” and, more broadly, “so proud of myself for even getting through the year. It was also incredibly nice to call my friends and be able to celebrate their successes as well, and to feel satisfaction knowing all those hours of work had paid off.”

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Beatrix McManus (Prep)

Jamie So (Prep)

Sylvia Shaw (Prep)

My favourite book is Matilda (by Roald Dahl). I like the drawings as well as the words and I like that it’s a bit funny. I like reading and Matilda likes reading. Miss Trunchbull is mad and I like that she’s mad. I’m reading Witches (by Roald Dahl) too. It’s not a bit scary. I like it.

I like Pig the Pug books (by Aaron Blabey). This one is Pig the Blob. Pig the pug is really nasty at the start but he’s nice by the end. My favourite is Trevor (the sausage dog) because he’s really good at annoying Pig the pug. I like books.

I like The Great Book About Dragons (by Frederica Magrin) because I like dragons a lot. I think they look cool and they can fly. Toothless (from How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell) is my favourite dragon. I’d like to train dragons.

I like A Library Book for Bear (by Bonny Becker). At the start he didn’t want any books and he was grumpy and too loud in the library. At the end, he got a new book. I like the pictures too.

Our Principal, Rebecca Cody, visited Bostock House to read 'Give Me Some Space!' by Philip Bunting as part of National Simultaneous Storytime.

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Who we are Where we are in place and time How we express ourselves How the world works How we organise ourselves Sharing the planet

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Our Year 6 students at Corio embarked upon a Unit of Inquiry in Term 2 that explored the theme of National Reconciliation Week. In the Primary Years Programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate (IB), students learn about significant concepts or big ideas through Units of Inquiry. Each Unit of Inquiry is a six to eight-week exploration of a concept or idea, which is developed collaboratively by students, guided by teacher questions and prompts. The PYP is transdisciplinary, meaning students learn across subject areas while investigating their big idea. In total, there are six Unit of Inquiry themes that students explore:

Our Year 6 students said that they enjoyed how Units of Inquiry gave them independence and ownership of their learning. “We don’t always do projects like this, where we have so much freedom to choose what we want to do and how we do it,” Year 6 student Bodhi Gardner (Yr6 Ot) said. “If you’re really passionate about a topic, you can find out more about it.” The PYP also encourages students to form their own connections between what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them. “I feel like inquiry is more like real life,” Ella Milburn (Yr6 Hi) said. “I think it’s more practical than some other subjects and it will help us after school.” Our Year 6 students used the Unit of Inquiry framework to investigate braver and more impactful actions they could take to contribute towards achieving reconciliation in Australia. For example, Ella and Milly Bailey (Yr6 Ot) collaborated on a project to encourage airlines and airports to include an Acknowledgment of Country in destination information.

“We thought that people would be interested to see what country they were travelling to,” Milly explained.

“I feel like inquiry is more like real life...” They discussed the use of digital destination signs at airports and airline boarding passes, and cited examples like Gold Coast Airport being on Bundjalung country. Similarly, Bodhi and Simar Singh (Yr6 Ot) explored ways for local businesses and organisations to include Acknowledgement of Country in their practices. They used Microsoft Forms to survey organisations and contacted them directly with suggestions, like including an Acknowledgement of Country in email signatures. They were particularly pleased to receive a positive response from the Geelong Gaol Museum. “When we saw that response, we lit up inside,” Bodhi said. “We were very proud.”

Hafi Hason (Yr4)

Franks McInnes (Yr4)

Vania Arora (Yr4)

I really like the Funny Kid series (by Matt Stanton). This one is Funny Kid Kicks Butt. From the start of the series, Max (aka Funny Kid) has been talking about a superhero called Captain Kickbutt and now he’s on a movie set, trying to play him in a movie. I like his pet duck, because he’s a duck, and that’s funny.

I like The Bad Guys books (by Aaron Blabey). They’re very exciting. My favourite character is Mr. Wolf. He’s the leader and he’s sort of scary and funny. I also like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books (by Jeff Kinney). They’re really funny.

My favourite series is Rabbit & Bear (by Julian Gough). It’s just really interesting and funny. Rabbit is scared of everything and always thinks something bad is going to happen. Bear is always positive and thinks everything is going to be alright. I also like Dog Man (by Dav Pilkey) and all the Andy Griffiths books. 15

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The POWER of RELATIONSHIPS What strikes me most about Term 2 is the power of relationships. After all my years at Timbertop, I keep coming back to the idea that this is what matters most. Daily, I see staff fulfilling a role not too dissimilar to that of a parent. I love the fact that at Timbertop, if you have or haven't been kind, honest or put in effort, an adult who knows you well will spot it and speak with you about it, directly. The relationship between students and staff is the space in which all progress and learning occurs. The relationship is the fulcrum of progress in our community, and like all our other

muscles, it is activated and strengthened in all parts of the programme. Gone are the veils of social media commentary or Tik Tok notoriety. Young people here are surrounded by adults who ‘can’ and ‘do’. By the time we reach this point in the year, we have been able to observe individuals and the cohort at their best and at their worst. Staff often speak to students of the rollercoaster of progress. This is the way life here works. Young people always want to know where the boundaries are. We ask them to rise to

the challenge of being kind, being honest and giving effort in the same way we ask them to push themselves on a run. We find that if we set the expectations high, they will rise to them. There is an insistence to this message, whether they are engaged in Community Service, on their Unit Hike or their Rites of Passage sessions at Corio. I think it sticks with them and is what eventually makes us achieve the powerful ending to each Timbertop year. Tom Hall Head of Timbertop

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During Semester 1, Year 6 students investigated distinctive styles, compositional elements and moods in portrait photography. Students were tasked with photographing a peer to explore their own personal style. The task required the photographer to put their peer – the subject – at ease by communicating their vision constructively and respectively, while still having fun with it and letting their creativity shine through.

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Enzo Jambon Year 6E

I had no idea what I was doing and just mucking around. What I think works the most about this picture is probably the peaches. They made the picture and the rich greens and pure texture in the colours.

Beare Reindel Year 6E

Isabella Taylor by

I was trying to achieve a serious mood. I think the white background and motion blur really made it moving. I used a ‘grunge’ filter.

Sophia D'Alton Jerry Wang by Beare Reindel

Sophia D'Alton Year 6E

I was trying to create a smoky mood to make it look professional. I think this looks calm/gloomy and professional. I think the tone and blurring are the main elements in this picture. The person is the main focus of this. I used a filter called lens blur to create and meaningful look.

Ollie Bartholomew Year 6A

The mood and intention that I was trying to achieve is excited and surprised, I wanted her to look intrigued and fascinated. I like the position and the way used the leaves of lettuce. I used lens blur, vignette, colour correction.

Dora Zhu by Ollie Bartholomew

Frank Williams by Tony Kongthong

Tony Kongthong Year 6A

The mood of the picture is mysterious and wondering about the world and its dark and scary. The design elements of the picture is dark tones and composition is good. The techniques that I used on Snapseed was healing on the brush next to the lemon branch that Frank is holding.

Heidi Calvert-Jones Year 6A

The mood that I was trying to achieve happiness, calmness. I think the good design element that makes it a good picture is the shape. One of the filters I used was fine art I think it helped the feeling of calmness. Self Portrait

by Heidi Ca

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Light, learning and living history – the Hawker Library reborn There is something special about the Hawker Library. Is it the golden glow that permeates the room on a winter’s afternoon? Or the coloured reflections from the stained glass windows that play across the table tops? The beauty of the rare book collection, a wondrous antidote to our digital world? Or is it the memories of those who have gone before, and are now commemorated within?

It is all of these things – a place of light and learning that connects the generations. Having evolved over decades, as it has adapted to changing needs, the Hawker Library is now entering the next phase of its life – as a quiet study space for senior students, as a meeting venue, and as the place where the School’s history is captured and preserved. With the Institute of Positive Education having vacated the room, and artifacts on display continuously for 15 years removed for cleaning and conservation, the opportunity became available to reintroduce this magnificent room to the School community. There has been a library in this same location since the Corio campus opened in 1914 – first in just one classroom adjacent to the clocktower, and later expanded into three rooms as the book collection grew. Following the opening of the Fisher Library in 1979, the Hawker became a specialist history library and more recently, in 2005, the home of the Michael Collins Persse Archives Centre after a generous donation from James Fairfax enabled the conversion of some of the shelving to

lockable, illuminated glass cabinets. More than 800 people were present to witness the opening of the Archives Centre, an event at which Michael himself was the guest of honour, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his association with Geelong Grammar School. Michael would, no doubt, be pleased that the objects from the archival collection which he cared for with such dedication are being returned to the display cabinets in small rotations of carefully curated items. That he himself is the subject of one of the displays would probably have amused him! Most of all, however, he would be delighted to know that his personal library, left by bequest to the Old Geelong Grammarians Association, has found a new home in the Hawker Library. Over the Easter holidays, a willing team of School staff members, Old Geelong Grammarians Committee members and friends of Michael unpacked and categorised 209 boxes of books, approximately two-thirds of which were shelved in the library. With gasps of admiration, and much stroking of their

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Far left: The School library c.1935 Left: Charles Hawker c.1914 Below: The library in 2003. The maplewood furniture and shelves were the gift of donors following the Second World War Opposite top: Michael's books unpacked and awaiting shelving and sorting. Opposite below: Michael Collins Persse by Dennis Ramsay, 1991

beautiful covers, Michael’s extensive Folio Society collection was carefully arranged in the cabinets along the southern wall. When Keats said that “a thing of beauty is a joy forever”, he must surely have been talking about the very great pleasure brought by a wall lined with exquisite books! Several volumes have been displayed open in the archival cabinets, for closer inspection of their beautiful typography and illustrations. This is a natural home for Michael’s collection, presided over by his lifelike portrait keeping careful watch over the library. Within his sight, too, hangs the portrait of Charles Hawker, in whose honour the library was named following his tragic death in an air accident in 1938 and his generous bequest of £10,000 to form a proper library. Michael said of Charles:

“It is important that his story be kept alive in the School which nurtured him, which he loved, whose library

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he endowed, and whose continuing ideals no-one has better epitomised than this strange, compelling, noble figure, battered in body yet indestructible in spirit, whose gift for winning hearts and minds to his own ideals amounted to leadership at its most selfless and sublime.” Severely wounded in the First World War but possessed of a moral courage matched only by his physical courage, Charles Hawker was a soldier and statesmen of rare and unsurpassable qualities. His untimely death robbed Australia of a future Prime Minister and Geelong Grammar School of one its best and brightest old boys. Described by Sir James Darling as “tough in spirit but sensitive to beauty”, Charles was a voracious reader whose favourite subjects at school were history and classics. Reading provided solace during his long recuperation from

devastating war wounds – he lost an eye in one battle and the use of his legs in another – and he is said to have won the affection of his nurses by sharing with them the pleasures of Russian novels and Greek verse. Several Old Geelong Grammarians who were killed in the next war, which Charles Hawker might have led Australia through, had he lived, are commemorated in the library’s memorial bays, as well as other notable contributors to the School. By dedicating themselves to their own studies, and the pursuit of knowledge, today’s students honour the noble spirits of their forebears. There is perhaps no better place to do this than the Hawker Library, where our School’s enduring ethos, the enabling of wisdom, is most profoundly expressed.

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More than a dozen outstanding bands from across Middle School, Timbertop and Senior School took to the stage at the Equestrian Centre on Saturday 1 May for the School’s second annual Battle of the Bands. In a hotly-contested field, this year’s winner was Piñata – a Senior School band featuring Lily Delves (Yr12 Cl), Gus Leung (Yr11 Cu), Hamish Routley (Yr12 A) and Momo Wu (Yr12 Cu). Old Geelong Grammarians Harvey Miller (Cu’06) and Monte Morgan (P’02), known collectively as Client Liaison, brought the curtain down with a stunning performance, featuring an outstanding AV display and no shortage of costume changes.

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A musical note Every competition needs a trophy, and the Battle of the Bands is no exception. The Hirschfeld-Mack Club decided to take the matter in hand. Being a parent support group that represents all the arts at Geelong Grammar School, this seemed like a great opportunity to commission an artwork that could be used as a trophy but would be something special in its own right. And what better than to showcase the talented work of one of our OGG artists? Lucy McEachern (Ga’99) is a renowned bronze sculptor working from Inverleigh, Victoria. Brought up on the land, she enjoyed observing birds with her father, and these magnificent creatures now inspire her work as an artist. Lucy creates beautiful sculptures of birds, ranging from barn owls to wedgetailed eagles in full flight. Some are large installation pieces that encapsulate the landscape, and others are smaller, limited-edition, tactile models. It is impossible to come into the orbit of one of Lucy’s sculptures without wanting to reach out and touch it. Lucy’s first exposure to bronze sculpting came in Year 11, when she visited a foundry on a school trip. Attracted by the tactile and timeless nature of the material, she cast her first bronze sculpture, a horse, in Year 12, under the tutelage of Martin Beaver. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Sculpture

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from Monash University, Lucy has exhibited her work widely across Victoria, as well as overseas in Italy and the US, and has held three solo exhibitions. She was won numerous awards and prizes, including most recently second prize in the Toorak Sculpture Competition. For the Hirschfeld-Mack Club’s commission, Lucy created a unique sculpture of a musical note, which she chose as a universal representation of music, surmounted by a small bird that is both a hallmark of Lucy’s work and a symbol of music in its own right. Lucy created the model in wax, before it was sent to a foundry in Brisbane where a rubber mould was made, and the bronze poured. Unusually, this is a one-off piece. Normally Lucy makes limited editions of 25 for each of her sculptures. One of these, a sculpture of an owl, was commissioned for the Garnett House courtyard by the McBain family, whose three daughters were in Garnett. To serve its function as a trophy, Lucy’s artwork needed a base. Jono Hook (Yr11 M), a design and technology student, met with Lucy to discuss a suitable design and is now in the process of making a base from Tasmanian oak. When completed, this beautiful artwork will serve as a perpetual trophy for the Battle of the Bands.

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BREAKING NEW GROUND The breakthrough had been coming. It had become an anomaly in recent seasons to wander Biddlecombe ovals on a Saturday morning in the summer season and not see a girl playing cricket with and against the boys.

Sophie Pierson (Cl’20), Abby Ralph (Yr12 He), Imogen Clarke (Yr9), Ruby McCormick (Yr9) and, more recently, Zoe Dean (Yr7 Ot) and Annie Taylor (Yr7 Hi) have each represented the School in Cricket. All have contributed to the success of the programme in Middle School before, at least in the case of Abbey and Sophie, taking up a different sport in Senior School. It took a left-arm seamer from Euroa to push on into the senior teams and break through with the 1st XI this season. When Georgia Gall (Yr11 Ga) charged in from the clocktower end against Melbourne Grammar School on Saturday 28 February, she not only became the first girl to play for the School’s 1st XI but just the second to ever compete in the APS competition. She joins elite company; current Australian captain Meg Lanning played for Carey Grammar as a Year 10 student in 2009. Two weeks after Georgia’s debut, Meika King debuted for Wesley College and, the following week, Meika and Wesley College travelled down the highway to take on Georgia and GGS. “It’s pretty special,” Georgia said. “Being able to represent our schools [at this level] means that female sport is heading in the right direction.” The event was captured by Cricket Australia’s digital team and they even facilitated a Zoom chat for the pair with Meg Lanning; not that Georgia needed the introduction to the Australian captain, having spent a chunk of 2020 with Lanning and the Melbourne Stars in a hub for the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL).

2020 looked set to be a breakout sporting year for Georgia. 2019, in a sporting sense, was limited by her presence at Timbertop before a foot fracture, suffered prior to the Timbertop marathon, meant that she was unable to play APS Cricket at any level in Term 1. COVID-19 then rendered the APS Winter season a write-off and her debut for the School’s Aussie Rules team would have to wait. The silver-lining came in August, when Georgia received a contract with the Melbourne Stars in the WBBL. This meant that while the rest of our students returned to on-campus learning for Term 4, Georgia completed her Term 4 studies in Sydney hub surrounded by international cricketers. By the time the 2021 APS Cricket season began, Georgia had countless hours of cricket under her belt with both the Cricket Victoria Emerging Players Program and the Essendon Maribyrnong Park Ladies Cricket Club. She began the season in the School’s Second XI but it only took one game for Georgia to knock the metaphorical door down for selection in the Firsts. “She played one game in our Second XI and bowled really well, took three wickets and as a result of that was selected in the firsts,” the School’s TIC of Cricket, Jye Hearps, said. After finishing with 0-30 from eight overs on debut, Georgia had to wait until her third match, at home vs Wesley College, to claim her first wicket. She took a second the following week against Xavier College.

Georgia became the third member of the Gall family to play Cricket at GGS, following in the footsteps of her father, Jim (Cu‘91), who was part of the School’s 1st XI premiership in 1990, and grandfather Peter (M‘53), who represented the School up until Year 10 level and whose claim to fame was defeating Kerry Packer in the Middle School Boxing championship. Jim and wife Suzanne were on hand to watch Georgia’s debut and to see her presented with her 1st Cricket cap by Rebecca Cody. “It was a privilege to witness Georgia’s cap presentation... particularly to receive it from Ms Cody who made a really moving and poignant speech,” Jim said. “What impressed us most was the support, maturity and respect Georgia’s teammates and coaches demonstrated on the day and throughout the season. They are a wonderfully inclusive bunch.” In terms of what’s next, Georgia is happy to just take it as it comes. “At the moment I’m just keen to keep on improving and see where that takes me.”

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Georgia in action against Wesley College

Georgia and Meika King, from Wesley College, became the second and third girl, respectively, to play APS Cricket, and the first pair to play against each other.

Annie Taylor (Yr7 Ot), Zoe Dean (Yr7 Hi) and the Year 7B Cricket team

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Thank you. It was incredibly humbling to exceed our ambitious $1 million target for our GGS Giving Day on Wednesday 2 June. Together, we raised $1,248,560 through the support of more than 600 donors in the space of 24 hours. I am deeply grateful to our wonderfully generous community for its kindness and belief in future generations of Geelong Grammar School students. Our students today are supported in their access to exceptional learning opportunities through the ongoing generosity of our community – a community that believes in the transformative power of education. My sincere thanks also to our matched donors, who gave so generously that all donations made on the day were doubled until we reached our target. It was simply a superb community effort and one that should give us all a great sense of pride. My overwhelming emotion is one of gratitude. I spoke about this recently at the Biddlecombe Society Luncheon at Barwon Heads and the Year 10 Parents’ Connect event at Corio. My connection to Geelong Grammar, initially through being a parent, has become a deep one. I am indebted to the School for all the benefits that my children experienced from a GGS education and the positive changes wrought on their lives. I have developed a profound admiration for the culture of our community, and I see it as a great privilege to be able to “put back in”, so that others can benefit from the opportunities that I and my children have been given. The Foundation matters for the same reason – it is our community’s way of showing gratitude for what the School has given us all. We are custodians who have inherited a legacy of generosity. Our School was not built from nothing. Hundreds of benefactors have contributed to the physical fabric of the School. Everywhere we go as we walk around our School, whether it be at Corio, Timbertop, Toorak or Bostock House, we see evidence of the philanthropy of benefactors, past and present. The Chapel of All Saints was the gift of the five Falkiner brothers – Franc, Norman, Otway, Ralph and Leigh – in 1915 for the Chancel and 1929 for the Chapel itself. Manifold House was the gift of six members of the Manifold family, chief among them William Manifold (GGS 1873-79), who also donated 57 acres of land when Corio was purchased in 1911. The Art School was funded by the Whittingham Bequest in 1937, later updated by Mark and Anne Robertson. John Fairfax AO (M’60) funded the Music School at Timbertop. The Music School at Corio was the gift of the Bell family in 1938. The Kilpatrick family, along with the OGGs, gave the War Memorial Gymnasium and the Kilpatrick Memorial Swimming Pool in 1955. And the OGGs have contributed to many projects, including Cuthbertson House (twice – once in 1914, and again in 1925 after the building was ravaged by fire), the War Memorial Cloisters and sculpture by George Lambert. More recently, our community raised significant sums for the School for Performing Arts and Creative Education (the SPACE), led by Ian Darling (P’79), the Handbury Centre for Wellbeing at Corio and the Toorak Wellbeing Centre. Other benefactors have supported living gifts, including the intangible but integral pillars of Positive Education and Creative Education. And others still the Scholarship Programme – the Seviors, Rankens, Simsons, Guests, Popes, Murrays, Dato Tan, Michael Collins Persse (Staff 1955-2018), Patsy Crummer, Gordon Moffat AM KSJ (M’48), Tony Poolman (FB’60), the family of Neil Robertson (FB’72), Jeff Peck (Ge’42) and Silver Harris, HOGA and COGA, Hartley Mitchell (Staff 1990-2011), to name but a few of 24

the many who have enabled access to a GGS education for now hundreds of children. The J. R. Darling Memorial Scholarship currently supports 52 students. There are 28 current Indigenous Scholars, and a total of over 150 scholarships fully or partially funded by the Foundation. You can appreciate from this list the invaluable impact of philanthropy on the fabric and culture of our School; now, in the past, and into the future.

“Together, we raised $1,248,560” One recently established scholarship, the Australian Rural and Regional Scholarship, instigated by the inspiring leadership of Roderic O’Connor (P’74) and Fiona Archer (Ratcliffe, Je’77), is a wonderful example of the generosity of our community. It was initially funded by a staggering 521 individual donors, many of whom made their gifts on our inaugural Giving Day in 2019. This year, more than $500,000 of Giving Day donations were directed to the Australian Rural and Regional Scholarship. These gifts came from an equally astounding 467 individual donors. The first recipient of this scholarship started at Timbertop this year and the combined efforts on Giving Day will enable another scholarship student to begin their GGS journey in 2023. The impact of a scholarship on a single life cannot be underestimated. Scholarships change lives and right now, they are more important than ever. Currently, almost 25% of students at our School receive some form of financial assistance. In these challenging times, there is an even greater need for scholarships and financial support. Scholarships are vital for the ongoing diversity of our School, providing life-changing opportunities for so many young people who otherwise could not afford a GGS education, especially those from remote, rural and regional areas. Giving Day was all about changing lives, and changing them forever. It was our opportunity to build on our inherited legacy of great generosity and ambitious vision, to open doorways to new opportunities, for the betterment of society and for the strengthening of our School. We all have it in our power to make things better for others. Your generosity on Giving Day will enable the flourishing of our School for generations to come. For that, I am profoundly grateful. Penny McBain Chair, Geelong Grammar Foundation

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Giving Day

98.2%

2021 in numbers

$1,248,560 in 24 hours

went to Scholarships

Other gifts included:

Heritage Building Fund 0.1% Timbertop 1.5% Library 0.2%

Moffatt Family Scholarship 4.6%

We had

McBain Family Scholarship 4.6%

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Australian Rural and Regional Scholarship 37.9%

donors Other scholarships included:

Jeff Peck & Silver Harris Scholarship 22.8%

Jonathan K Breadmore Scholarship 2.9%

General Scholarship Fund 9.9% James Gordon M Moffatt Scholarship 4.6%

35% Past Parents

22% Current Parents 34% Past Students

Indigenous Scholarship 2.4% Michael Collins Persse Scholarship 2.0%

J. R. Darling Memorial Scholarship 0.7% Tommy Garnett Scholarship 0.7%

Hartley Mitchell Scholarship 1.8%

Neil Robertson Scholarship 0.5%

Annual Giving Scholarship 1.5%

Richard James Chester Guest Memorial Scholarship 0.5%

41% new donors

59% repeat donors

Largest gift $150,000 Smallest gift $1

Other 0.8%

Other donors include

Future Parents 2.2% Current Staff 3.4% Past Staff 3.5% GGS Friends 0.4%

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Biddlecombe Society At the Barwon Heads Biddlecombe Lunch were (left to right): 1. Rob Perry (A’83), Cathie Vickers-Willis (Past Staff), David Morton (P’80), Robert Vickers-Willis (Past Parent), Penny McBain (Foundation Chair), Andrew Bostock (Bb’60), Angela Waterman (Past Parent), Michael Lane (FB’80), Penelope Mulholland (Je’76), Charlie Sutherland (P’86, Biddlecombe Chair), Andy Beauchamp (Past Staff, Hon. OGG) 2. Joan Mackenzie (Bloomfield, Clyde ‘52), Susie Greig-Rouffignac (Greig, Cl’85), Henrietta (Henrie) Stride (Je’86) 3. Fiona East (Russell, The Hermitage ‘71), Bruce Wilson (Cu’66) 4. Lisa Beauchamp (Past Staff), Claire Ramsay (Li’74) 5. Rob Backwell (M’81), Lyn Backwell 6. James Weatherly (M’59), Georgie Crozier (Je’81) 7. Keith Turrill, Valerie Grills (Past Parent)

At the Adelaide Biddlecombe Lunch were (left to right):

BELLARINE PENINSULA BIDDLECOMBE SOCIETY LUNCHEON

Almost 12 months to the day since our last event, the Foundation and Biddlecombe Society hosted its annual Bellarine Peninsula Luncheon at the Barwon Heads Golf Club on Thursday 11 March. Much has changed in that time and as Charlie Sutherland, Chairman of the Biddlecombe Society, pointed out, it was heart-warming to see such a wonderful gathering after the restrictive year everyone had experienced in 2020. Along with an excellent address from the Chair of the Foundation, Penny McBain, it was also the first time those present have been able to hear from a scholarship recipient, Sunny Handy (M’20, Hartley Mitchell Scholarship recipient) together with Hartley Mitchell, former staff member and Manifold House master. Between them, Sunny and Hartley were able to give a fantastic firsthand account of the impacts of the scholarship – one giving, the other receiving – and the gratitude that came from that experience for both of them.

8. Gary Le Rossignol (M’69), David Little (P’70), Judith Little 9. Gary Le Rossignol (M’69), David Little (P’70), Mark Swann (Past Parent), John Rippon (M’65), Brooke Yates (MacLachlan, Cl’86), Hugh MacLachlan (P’52) 10. Alister Haigh (Cu’72) and Simon Yates (Current Parent) 11. Fiona MacLachlan (Past Parent) and Hugh MacLachlan (P’52)

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Boz Parsons

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We are delighted to recognise a cherished member of our community through the establishment of a new scholarship for rural and regional students. The Boz Parsons Scholarship celebrates a man who exemplified service – to our country and to our School – as a decorated World War 2 bomber pilot and as a legendary Housemaster of Manifold House (1965-1978). Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons (M’36) grew up in the Western District, the youngest of six children. Boz’s father died when he was very young and Boz joined GGS in 1927 as a recipient of the Bertie Manifold Scholarship.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA BIDDLECOMBE SOCIETY LUNCHEON

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“I was a scholarship boy and I felt very indebted to the School and I felt that it was incumbent upon me to do the very best that I could...” Boz was a School Prefect and won a scholarship to Trinity College to study Science at Melbourne University. He enlisted at the outbreak of World War 2 and served in the RAAF as a bomber pilot, flying more than 2,000 hours with Bomber Command, mentioned twice in dispatches, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and retiring as Squadron Leader. Boz returned to GGS in 1962 to teach Agricultural Science and Chemistry, serving as Housemaster of Manifold House from 1965-1978 and Master of Corio from 1978-1979. He was the Secretary of the Old Geelong Grammarians’ Association from 1980-1988 and was awarded an inaugural OGG Fellowship in 2005. “It seems now entirely appropriate and fitting that we should be establishing a scholarship in Boz’s name,” Mary Morton (Weatherly, Cl’85), Deputy Chair of the Foundation, said. “He represents the absolute apotheosis of what scholarships are about and what is possible for people who have been given that opportunity. Now more than ever, we need to create more opportunities for people to come here, because it’s harder than ever for people to open those doors by themselves – and that’s what the scholarship programme does; it opens doors and provides opportunities for others.” The Boz Parsons Scholarship was to be officially launched at the Geelong Grammar School & Geelong Grammar Foundation Black Tie Dinner at Corio on Saturday 10 July. 27

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Dr James Darling, reference for Jimmy’s application to the RAAF

Opposite bottom right: Jimmy (right) with his close friend, Pilot Officer Tony Gordon. They enlisted together in Melbourne and were reunited in Stalag Luft III, where Tony dug tunnels and worked on the secret radio. Tony was liberated at the end of the war. Below left: The Hampden torpedo-bombers piloted by Jimmy were operated by a crew of four – pilot, navigator, radio operator/gunner and rear gunner – all packed into the narrow fuselage. Below: The north compound of Stalag Luft III. The tunnel openings were concealed beneath the floors of the huts in which the prisoners lived.

It is impossible to know whether James (Jimmy) Catanach thought back to his schooldays at Geelong Grammar as he dug at the dirt beneath hut 104 in Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in 1943 and 1944. But it’s tempting to think that the resourcefulness and guile Jimmy developed while in the scouts and school cadets, and no doubt the dormitories of Perry House, played a small part in the Great Escape, one of World War Two’s most famous episodes. Our School values are courage, curiosity and compassion. Jimmy had these in spades – particularly courage, to a degree that is rarely witnessed now that young men and women are no longer called on to perform acts of extraordinary bravery almost as soon as their pens are put down on their desks. Jimmy completed his schooling in 1938, worked briefly in his father’s jewellery business and in January 1940 enlisted in the RAAF. He had earnt his wings by April 1941, and later that year was posted to No. 455 Squadron, the first Australian squadron to participate in Bomber Command’s strategic bombing offensive over Europe. LIGHT BLUE - GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL

While the war in the Pacific raged ever closer to Australia, Jimmy flew nine sorties over Germany, bombing cities such as Cologne and Hamburg, doing his bit to destroy the Nazi war machine. On one mission, over Lorient in France, the entire nose of his Hampden torpedo was blown away, leaving his feet dangling out of what was left of the cockpit. Almost blinded by the explosion, he managed to regain control of the plane and return it and his crew safely to England. By June 1942 he had returned his badly damaged aircraft on another two occasions, become the youngest squadron leader in the Commonwealth air forces, and had earnt himself the Distinguished Flying Cross. Not yet 21 years old, he became something of a celebrity, appearing on the BBC’s Anzac Hour radio program, and even being invited to Windsor Castle to take tea with the royal family. With each sortie that Jimmy flew, which included anti-shipping missions with Coastal Command from April 1942, his chances of safely returning home diminished. For every 100 men who flew with Bomber Command, 56 were killed or

died of wounds received in the air – with an average age of 22 – and 12 became prisoners-of-war. Jimmy’s number came up on the night of 4/5 September 1942, when he was en route to Vaenga in the Soviet Union to provide air cover for British convoys. Caught by ground fire, which holed the plane’s fuel tanks, he was forced to make an emergency landing at Kirkenes in Nazi-occupied Norway, managing to avoid ditching in the icy Arctic waters and thereby saving the lives of his crew. Back in Australia, Jimmy’s family endured a wait of several weeks before they knew whether ‘missing in action’ meant that he was dead or alive. The telegram conveying information obtained from the Red Cross that Jimmy was a prisoner-of-war in Germany was, in the circumstances, a relief. Jimmy and his crew had been immediately captured and taken to Stalag Luft III, a purpose-built internment camp located in a pine forest in the German province of Lower Silesia, near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland), deep in the German Reich.

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“A and worker, unselfish and possessed of gifts of initiative.”

Opposite bottom left: Jimmy at Leuchars Airfield, Scotland, 1942.

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wealth of superfluous energy in any individual “I’ve never seen such a

over the age of 12 as Jimmy

constantly had at his disposal. He didn’t drink or smoke; he talked at an incredible speed he couldn’t stand still for a second, but he hopped about all the time you were talking to him till you were nearly giddy. He was a most excellent Flight Commander, and was probably the most generally liked man in the whole squadron.” Wing Commander Grant Lindemann, No. 455 Squadron, RAAF

Allied air force personnel lived in single-storey huts raised from the ground on stilts. The camp was well equipped with athletic fields and volleyball courts, a library and access to correspondence courses supplied by the Red Cross. Jimmy, who was already a fluent German speaker, learnt Norwegian by correspondence. News and music were broadcast through the camp, and newspapers were published four times a week. But seeing out the war in relative comfort was not an option for men who felt honour-bound to attempt escape. In the spring of 1943, Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, codenamed Big X, devised a daring plan. Fans of the classic 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen, will be familiar with the premise of the plan, which hinged on the construction of three tunnels, named Tom, Dick and Harry. The tunnels included workshops, air pumps and staging posts, and were shored up by more than 4,000 wooden boards purloined from the prisoner’s beds. A stolen electricity cable linked to the camp’s main power supply provided electric lighting. As Bushell had predicted, only one tunnel was ultimately successful. Dick was never completed but used to hide stores and soil from the other tunnels. Tom was discovered in September 1943, as it neared completion, but Harry, concealed under a stove in hut 104, was completed in March 1944.

Above: This photograph of Jimmy, wearing his altered greatcoat and holding the briefcase containing his escape kit, was taken following his arrest after the failed escape attempt. Game up.

The adrenaline-pumping mix of exhilaration and fear that Jimmy surely felt as he poked his head out of the tunnel’s exit on the moonless and freezing night of 24/25 March is gripping to imagine – especially as there was a

problem. Harry had stopped 5 metres short of the tree line that was to have concealed its exit, and just 10 metres from a camp watchtower. This, and a hatch door that had frozen shut, meant that only 76 of the planned 200 prisoners managed to escape before the tunnel was discovered at daybreak. All the escapees were equipped with an escape kit, including food rations, fake ID papers and compasses ingeniously made by an Australian, Pilot Officer Albert Hake. With the ability to pass off as Norwegian thanks to his correspondence course, Jimmy and three others travelled together by train to Berlin, then on to Hamburg and the naval town of Flensburg on the Danish border, from where they planned to make their way to neutral Sweden. With freedom in their sights, they were held up by policemen at Flensburg who became suspicious about their clothing, altered from army-issue greatcoats, and the escape rations in their briefcases. All four men were arrested and imprisoned in Flensburg jail. Across the Reich, the escapees were gradually being rounded up. On 29 March, Jimmy and his companions were handcuffed and driven by five Gestapo officers into the countryside. Jimmy, travelling in the first car, was ordered to get out and walk towards a meadow on the other side of the road; as he did so, Gestapo officer Johannes Post drew his Luger and put a bullet in Jimmy’s back. As he fell to the ground, he uttered a single word: “Why?” He was 22 years old. The other three airmen with Jimmy died in the same manner moments later.

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The answer to Jimmy’s question was merciless: he and 49 others were executed on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler. Later, a war crimes tribunal identified 18 Gestapo officers who were responsible for the murders, 13 of whom were executed by hanging for their crimes. Of the 76 escapees, only three managed to evade capture. At Stalag Luft III, the new camp Kommondant, Oberst Braune, was so appalled by the murders that he allowed the remaining prisoners to build a memorial, which still stands. Jimmy Catanach is commemorated there, and at his grave in Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery in Poland, where the epitaph on his headstone reads, “His duty fearlessly and nobly done. Ever remembered.”

Right: Before leaving the camp on his daring escape mission, Jimmy entrusted his watch, a “Catanach Cyma”, to a Norwegian friend, Roy Nielsen. It was not worth the risk of having any item on his person that could potentially identify him. When Jimmy did not return, Roy kept the watch in his possession. In 2014, the Nielsen family contacted Catanach’s Jewellers in Melbourne, and the watch was returned to Jimmy’s family having been in the Nielsens’ safekeeping for 70 years. Below: Jimmy’s record card from the school archives. His exact date of death, which differs from the news clippings, was only confirmed after the war.

At Geelong Grammar, Jimmy left us a special momento. He and four other friends, self-described as “The Gang”, made the ironwork banisters in the Art School, which are characterised by their charming handwrought workmanship. They are a tactile memory of a valiant Perry boy, who lived briefly but burned brightly, as the joint motto of the RAF and RAAF upholds: Per ardua ad astra – through adversity to the stars. Sophie Church Historian With thanks to Neil Sharkey, Shrine of Remembrance, and the Julia Burgess.

Above: The extended Catanach family following the laying of a wreath in Jimmy’s memory by his niece, Julia Burgess, on Anzac Day 2021.

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Ivor Gordon Bowden (M’43), who was born on 19 August 1925 and died on 23 April 2021, aged 95, was an Australian diplomat who served as Commissioner of the Australian Embassy in Hong Kong and as Ambassador to Iran and Pakistan. Ivor was born in Shanghai, where his father Vivian Gordon Bowden was serving as the government trade commissioner. The family links to Asia were well established, with Ivor’s grandfather having established a business in Japan where Vivian Bowden spent much of his youth. From the age of 11, Ivor was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, but on the outbreak of the Second World War he travelled to Australia with his mother and two sisters to continue his education at Geelong Grammar School, where he commenced in Manifold House in 1940. The next few years were personally devastating for Ivor. In September 1941, Vivian Bowden was transferred to Singapore as the Australian government’s official representative. After the Japanese invaded Malaya on 8 December, he observed the enemy’s rapid advance and forewarned the government that, without reinforcements, Singapore would fall. On 9 February, as the Japanese landed on Singapore island, Vivian Bowden was ordered to stay at his post to maintain morale and gather intelligence. He evacuated in a motor launch on 14 February, the day of the British surrender, but the boat was intercepted by the Japanese. Vivian Bowden was taken prisoner on Bangka Island and, despite his diplomatic status, was executed on 17 February after having been forced to dig his own grave. The fate of Vivian Bowden was unknown to his family until almost two years after the event. Tragically, in the same year, Ivor’s mother, Dorothy, died from cancer, leaving Ivor an orphan. School fees became an issue, but thanks to the intervention of Sir James Darling (Headmaster 1930-61), Ivor was able to stay on at GGS, including in the Darlings’ own home during the school holidays, an act of generosity for which he remained profoundly grateful. Despite, or perhaps because of his personal circumstances, Ivor immersed himself fully in school life. He played cricket and football, was a competitive runner in athletic sports, played piccolo in the School orchestra, joined the cadets, and served as president of the Classical and Literary Society. He was a member of the committee that produced the Corio Scrapbook, and when the journal was stopped due to a wartime shortage of paper, he instead became involved with producing a newsreel of school life by providing the commentary. Drama was a favourite pastime; he played the female role of Katherine in Henry V in 1940, and in a 1943 production of Ian Hay’s Housemaster, he acquitted himself playing a caricatured “pompous senior boy… obviously destined for the diplomatic service”. Ivor was himself destined for the diplomatic service, for which his academic credentials equipped him well. He won prizes for Greek, French, English poetry, and Latin composition, and was Dux of the School in 1943, gaining Leaving Certificate honours in French, Latin and European History. Before a career could commence, he answered the call of duty and presented for enlistment in the Australian Army but was rejected due to poor eyesight. Following an introduction from Darling, he was accepted instead by the British Military Liaison Office in Melbourne and sailed for Britain early in 1944 with Tony Fullerton (P’43) and Robert Collinge (Cu’43). Ivor trained with the Royal Irish Fusiliers in County Tyrone before being posted to India with the 1st Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment, where he served in various stations. He was subsequently appointed Battalion Intelligence Officer and was demobilised in 1947 with the rank of Captain.

Based on Ivor’s outstanding academic record, Darling had obtained a guarantee that there would be a place for him at Oriel College, Oxford, should he survive the war. Helped by this introduction and a Whittingham Scholarship from GGS, Ivor went up to Oriel in 1947, where he read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE). He returned to Australia in 1951 and joined the Department of External Affairs (now DFAT). His marriage in October 1952 to Caroline Wills, who survives him, may not have occurred had it not been for the kindly intervention once more of Darling. Caroline’s father, Sir Kenneth Wills, had met Darling on board the ship that was bringing him to Australia to take up his appointment at GGS. Wills was so impressed with Darling that he changed the planned schooling arrangements of his son Bill Wills (Cu’39) and sent him to GGS. Years later, when Ivor and Caroline were courting, Wills senior contacted Darling to enquire about his daughter’s suitor; evidently, the report was favourable. The newly married Bowdens moved to Saigon in 1952 to take up the first of Ivor’s overseas appointments, followed by Paris in 1957, Noumea in 1963, Dublin in 1965 and Belgrade in 1966. In 1972, Ivor was appointed Commissioner of the Australian Embassy in Hong Kong, then Ambassador to Iran from 1974 to 78 and Pakistan from 1984 to 87. He retired as a First Assistant Secretary in the Senior Executive Service. Retirement in Canberra then Adelaide provided opportunities for extensive and adventurous travel, carpentry, gardening, editing the many rolls of film that recorded his overseas travels, and writing a family history. In 2012, he visited the site on Bangka Island where his father had died and arranged for a memorial plaque in his memory. He returned in 2015 to witness the unveiling of a memorial to all Bangka Island internees. Ivor’s sons Charles (Cu’73) and James (Cu’76) both attended GGS, as did his grandson William (Cu’20).

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↓ Jim Middleton (Cu’47), who was born on 19 November 1929 and died on 17 September 2019, played an important role in the growth of the coffee industry in Papua New Guinea. Jim grew up in Nhill, the son of local GP Frederick Middleton. A keen sportsman, Jim represented the School in swimming and athletics, winning the 120 yards hurdles at the 1947 Quadrangular Sports between GGS, Geelong College, Melbourne High School and St. Joseph’s College and finishing fourth in the same event at the Combined APS Sports. He was captain of the 2nd XI Cricket team and a leading goalkicker for the 1st XVIII Football team. Jim left Australia for Papua New Guinea in 1957 where he established a coffee plantation in the Wahgi Valley in the Western Highlands with his business partner, Bruce Bowden. Jim played a key role in the development of the coffee industry in Papua New Guinea as president of Farmers and Settlers and a board member of the Coffee Marketing Board, which oversaw the policy of the production and distribution of coffee in New Guinea. One of his lasting achievements was to encourage New Guineans to grow their own coffee. Coffee production is now dominated by village-based smallholder farms rather than plantations and is the country’s second largest agricultural export. Jim’s life in Papua New Guinea was retold by his wife Anna (Jensen, Clyde’55) in her 2017 memoir, Anna: “Living in a native material house, with no electricity, telephone, running water or sanitation, in a place without roads or shops, life was not easy. But it was an extreme adventure.” Jim wanted to remain in Papua New Guinea after the country achieved independence from Australia in 1975, but life was becoming increasingly uncertain. In 1980, he returned to Australia with his family and settled in Byron Bay where he established a sub-tropical fruit farm, specialising in avocados. Byron Bay remained home until his death, a result of complications in the treatment he was having for cancer. Jim is survived by his wife Anna (Jensen, Clyde’55), and children James (Cu’79), Lisa (Cl’80) and Pitra (Cl’86).

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Andrew Gubbins (M’52), who was born on 19 January 1935 and died on 27 May 2020, was posthumously awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the beef cattle industry. Andrew is widely regarded as a visionary who spurred the Angus breed’s ascendancy with his innovative and scientific approach to breeding at his Te Mania Angus stud. Andrew grew up at Birregurra and followed his father Norman Gubbins (M’25) to GGS, starting at Bostock House in 1944. After leaving school, he worked as a jackaroo for Franc Falkiner (Cu’24) at his Boonooke Merino stud and spent 1955 as a ringer at Fossil Downs in the Kimberley, where he fell in love with the outback. In 1960, Andrew bought a bush block at the foot of the Otways near Colac, naming it Pardoo after an outback station. He carved paddocks from the scrub but left thick bands of bush untouched to provide wildlife corridors and shelter belts. Andrew studied Agriculture at Lincoln College in New Zealand, where he met his future wife, Mary (née Wilding), who had grown up at Te Mania in North Canterbury on New Zealand’s South Island (Te Waipounamu). In 1971, Andrew and Mary founded Te Mania Angus, importing two young Angus bulls and 58 cows and heifers from New Zealand. Since it was established, Te Mania Angus has set (and still holds) every Australian Angus sales record. Andrew embraced science and technology from the outset, working with Monash University to trial IVF on his cattle in the early 1980s. In 1983, he imported VPI Lord Patriot from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the United States, which was the first shipment of cattle to come into Australia through the Cocos Island quarantine station. It would become one of Te Mania’s most successful sires. In 1995, Andrew established the Team Te Mania progeny test programme, which has grown into a coalition of 42 Angus herds across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. Te Mania Angus now has a 2,000-head breeding herd, under the management of Andrew’s children, Tom Gubbins (M’85) and wife Lucy at Hexham and Amanda (Gubbins, Cl’79) and Hamish McFarlane (M’78) at Connewarre. Te Mania Angus continues the sustainable farming practices Andrew employed at Pardoo, utilising waterways and native bush as shelter belts and natural farm inputs to nourish the soil. A quiet and humble man, Andrew was highly regarded in the beef cattle industry. He was a member of Angus Australia for almost 50 years, including serving on the Victorian State Committee during the 1980s and 1990s, as a Federal Councillor from 1988-95, as Vice-President in 1992, as Chairman of its Technical Committee and as a representative on the 1997 World Forum Committee. He received the prestigious Howard Yelland Beef Industry Award in 2008 and was awarded Life Membership of Angus Australia in 2013. It is estimated that since 1990, the economic value of the genetic improvement of Angus cattle can be valued at $5 billion. Andrew is credited for playing a significant role in this growth. The Australia Day honour recognises Andrew’s lifetime of work, which continues to benefit Australia’s beef cattle sector.

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Mary Lou Jelbart (Hazzard, The Hermitage ’56) was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to the performing and visual arts, and to the community. Mary Lou is the founder of a number of significant community, cultural and arts events in Melbourne, including the St Kilda Festival, the St Kilda Film Festival and fortyfivedownstairs, which is a not-for-profit art gallery and theatre in Melbourne’s CBD. Mary Lou was a presenter, programme-maker, theatre and arts reviewer for ABC Radio National for more than 20 years. She was also a regular theatre, arts and craft reviewer for ABC Radio Melbourne (774) and The Age. Mary Lou was a member of the former St Kilda Council (now the City of Port Phillip) for nine years and was a driving force behind a number of initiatives aimed at changing the perception of the suburb. In 1980, she founded the St Kilda Festival, which has become Australia’s largest community festival, attracting more than 400,000 people to St Kilda’s foreshore each February. In 1984, she founded the St Kilda Film Festival, which has become Australia’s largest and longest-running short film festival (it is also an Academy Awards qualifying event). More recently, in 2002, Mary Lou and close friend Julian Burnside QC, founded the fortyfivedownstairs performance space in Flinders Street, where she is Artistic Director, presenting the work of independent visual artists, theatre companies and musicians. Mary Lou has been a board member of Artbank, Craft Victoria and Theatre Works. She has been actively involved in conservation issues and was a member of the National Trust Council and a board member of Heritage Victoria. She was also an organiser and speaker at the Save Albert Park rally in 1994, which protested against the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park Reserve.

1958

Jeremy Pickett-Heaps (P’58), who was born on 5 June 1940 and died on 11 April 2021, was Professor of Botany at The University of Melbourne and received the Darbaker Prize from the Botanical Society of America for his pioneering work in micromorphology.

Jeremy was born in Bombay, India, to Australian parents. He started at Bostock House in 1949, and came to Corio in 1951, where he became a keen member of the Natural History Society, attaching leg bands to oystercatcher chicks for CSIRO. Two teachers, Ken Mappin and Marjorie Tunbridge, had a particular influence. Marjorie encouraged Jeremy’s budding interest in biology, then an underrated subject, and helped to develop his research skills, and Mappin encouraged Jeremy to try for an Exhibition in chemistry which, with Mappin’s dedicated assistance, he achieved. A prefect in his final year, Jeremy won colours for rowing and football, as well as work, athletics and swimming. Jeremy was Dux of the School in 1958 and the following year, having won a Commonwealth scholarship and an AH Whittingham minor scholarship, went up to Clare College, Cambridge, to read natural sciences. He received a PhD in biochemistry in 1965 under Donald Northcote, with whom he became the first scientist to observe and describe the microscopic pre-prophase band of microtubules, found in plant cells about to undergo cell division. Jeremy became fascinated with electron microscopy, which at the time was transforming scientists’ concepts of cellular structure. A turning point in his career came when he observed a live diatom undergoing mitosis at high magnification, after which he began using a 16mm time-lapse camera to film his observations, naming this new technique ‘videomicroscopy’. After a brief stint as a don at Cambridge, Jeremy returned to Australia in 1965 to take up a position as a research fellow at ANU, first at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, then at the Research School of Biological Science. There he embarked on comprehensive studies of the ultrastructure of algae, leading to new understanding in the evolution of land plants. He continued this research in 1970 when he moved to America to become professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of Colorado, a position he held until 1988. Between 1970 and 1974 he published 45 papers, and in 1974 he was awarded the Darbaker Prize by the Botanical Society of America for his tireless explorations into micromorphology, which led to the synthesis of important new ideas. In 1975, Jeremy published his ideas in his landmark work, Green algae: structure, reproduction and evolution in selected genera. Upon his return to Australia from Colorado, Jeremy became professor of botany at The University of Melbourne, where he remained until his retirement in 2002. He was elected to fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science in 1992 and the Royal Society in 1995. He served as a member of the GGS Council from 1990 to 1998. During this period of his life, he produced a series of magnificent movies of microscopic organisms and their biology, making such footage available to the general public for the first time. In this work he was aided by his wife Julianne (Julie), with whom he ran a company called Cytographics. Examples can be found on You Tube and on Jeremy’s Instagram account @cells_alive_and_kicking. In retirement, they observed and filmed native bird behaviour near their home in Mallacoota. Jeremy’s final years were marred by Parkinson’s Disease, but his curiosity, enthusiasm and wit remained. Jeremy is survived by Julie, children David, Aaron, Rebecca and Christopher, and six grandchildren. His brother Tony Pickett-Heaps (P’60) also attended GGS.

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↓ Richard Stawell  (Glamorgan ’57) was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to ophthalmology, to research, and to professional bodies. Richard is the ophthalmologist in charge of the Ocular Immunology Clinic at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, which specialises in complex inflammatory eye disease and is involved in a wide range of clinical research projects. He has served as President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, Chair of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia, and Chair of the senior medical staff of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.

1959

Michael Saffin (M’59), who was born on 28 March 1943 and died on 7 March 2021, was well-respected among Western District pastoralists for winning so many country show prizes for his fine Merino wool clip. Michael was born in Skipton to Francis and Jean Saffin (née Samuel), and was the eldest of three children, followed by Mary Schrader (Saffin, The Hermitage '61) and Robyn Gorringe (Saffin, The Hermitage ’63). He attended the small Pura Pura Primary School, which was a short pony ride from his parents’ property, before joining GGS as a boarder in 1956. All he ever wanted to do was be a grazier, and he returned home to work his parents’ property, Poleford near Vite Vite in the Western District, which had been named by his grandfather after the Saffin family home in Devon, England. Michael bought the farm next door in 1967, growing prize-winning wool and crops on both. The back border of the farm was marked by Mt Emu Creek and the north boundary was the Geelong-Adelaide freight train line. In later years, he moved to Ballarat. A loyal OGG, he loved attending reunions to catch up and reminisce about his time at GGS, particularly his Timbertop year in 1958. Michael will be remembered for his hard work, love of family, his laugh and generosity. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Marion, children Tracey and Dean, and their families, including five much-loved grandchildren.

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Sandy Macdonald (P’71) was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the people and Parliament of Australia, and to public administration. Sandy was a member of the Senate from 1993-98 and from 2000-08, representing the state of New South Wales for the National Party. His Parliamentary service included eight years as Chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee, and periods as Deputy Leader of the National Party in the Senate, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence and Parliamentary Secretary for Trade. He retired from the Senate at the expiry of his term in 2008 after the defeat of the Howard Government and was appointed a Director of Defence Housing Australia, becoming Chair in 2015. Sandy studied Law at Sydney University and was a wool and beef producer at Quirindi in New South Wales’ Liverpool Plains before entering Parliament.

1979

Dr Jackie Fairley (Je’79) has played an active role in the development and distribution of pharmaceutical products to combat COVID-19. Jackie is CEO of global biopharmaceutical company Starpharma, which launched its antiviral nasal spray in the UK in April. Viraleze antiviral nasal spray was launched through LloydsPharmacy, which has 1,400 pharmacies across Great Britain, as well as being available through a further 14,000 independent pharmacies in the UK. Viraleze was developed by Starpharma and is registered for sale in the UK and Europe. It is an easy-to-use antiviral nasal spray containing astodrimer sodium, which has shown in laboratory studies to inactivate respiratory viruses, including 99.9% of coronavirus (SARSCoV-2). Jackie has worked within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for more than 30 years, holding various senior management roles with companies such as CSL and Faulding/Hospira (now part of Pfizer) before becoming CEO of Starpharma in 2006. She graduated from The University of Melbourne with first class honours degrees in Science (pharmacology and pathology) and Veterinary Science. She also obtained an MBA from the Melbourne Business School and was a recipient of the prestigious Clemenger Prize.

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Greg Fleet (A’79) and Ian Darling (P’79) have had such an enduring friendship across the past 46 years that they decided to write and perform a play about it. The pair were inseparable at school, acting in numerous plays together, but lost touch after school as their lives went in different directions; Ian to university and a career in finance, and Greg to NIDA before a heroin habit turned his life upside down. Since reuniting they have rekindled their friendship, which has provided rich source material for their play. The Twins premiered at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in February before touring to Sydney, Kangaroo Valley, Canberra and Melbourne. Described as “an achingly honest account that sees privilege and heroin joined at the hip”, the play centres around two old friends who come back together 40 years after playing twins in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, to rework it as a two-hander. The pair coined the term “theatre verité” to describe their piece, in which the characters are real people played by themselves. The critically acclaimed play had its 75th performance at the School of Performing Arts and Creative Education (the SPACE) at Corio. After the performance for Senior School students, Greg and Ian provided an insight into their journey in a Q&A alongside director Terry Serio and co-writer Sarah Butler.

Ian: It’s been enormously fun and I can’t tell you what it means… What none of you realise is that 40 years goes like that (clicks fingers). I remember sitting where you are now. To think that 40 years later that we’d be back here where it all began, there is something so joyous in that. I remember the last play we did here and there was just this emptiness knowing that we would never do this ever again. And we did. The first play we did here together was Lord of the Flies in the big white hall before it burned down. We were the first group to perform in the old BW, we performed The Comedy of Errors, in the first year that it opened. To come back and perform here is just a joy. There is a connection that we will never ever lose, no matter what we do and how many times we let each other down, because that’s what a true friendship is. It started at school. To be able to come back here and do something that we did 40 years ago is so much fun. Greg: From my perspective, I didn’t have any hesitation about it at all. I assumed that anyone interested in theatre would find it interesting and I thought that anyone else would find it less boring than some of the stuff that I had to watch at school. It wasn’t until we started doing it that I had that realisation that a lot of what we’re talking about happened 40 years ago and it’s not necessarily the experience (of current students). That’s when I thought ‘are they going to find this boring?’, so I had a major anxiety attack in the first third, but I kind of sensed that the audience was engaged.

Ian: It is very confronting. This is our 75th show and every time, before I’m out on stage, there is real anxiety. It is really difficult. A lot of my actor friends say that it never goes away. That is something about being a performer and I suppose that’s why I gave up wanting to be an actor long ago. The interesting thing is that across all of those performances, the audience has been different every single night. Every audience has its own personality. Some audience laugh from go to whoa, others you can hear a pin drop. Two white men in their 50s doing a play about privilege, there was a lot of potential for it not to connect, but I think having now performed it in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Kangaroo Valley, Canberra, and now here at Geelong Grammar, to audiences of different ages, races, walks of life or whatever, everyone has been able to find something to connect with. That surprised us. Greg: Bryan Brown and Sam Neill came and saw it. They said, ‘We should do this. We should do a version of it.’ It sounds great but when you actually think about it, it wouldn’t work if it was someone else. You’re allowing these characters to get away with certain things because it’s true. And it is true. There’s nothing in there that is made up. It’s about finding ways to measure that truth and mixing the heavy scenes and the light scenes, so it’s highly constructed in a way, with the play within the play, and with Shakespeare woven through it.

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Ian: It was important to highlight the friendship and the importance of never giving up on someone. We all are so quick to judge and so quick to put labels on people. We had about a third of our 1979 class come to see the play in Melbourne and everyone still has the same nicknames that they had back then and in ways they are still judged by those labels. For us, it was an exploration of not putting a label on someone and having the sense to understand that we’ve all been in this place together and we can all look after each other and that you should never write off your friends. That’s the most important thing that we came out of this school with, the lifelong friendships, because you’re sure as hell going to need each other out in the big wide world. Fleety and I have looked after each other in different ways over the last 40 years. I don’t expect you to write a play (about your friendships), which is what we sort of did.

Greg: The first reunion I went to was the Timbertop 30-year reunion. I’d never been to an OGG reunion before and what hit me beforehand was this sense that I hadn’t done enough, that I hadn’t achieved enough, that I wasn’t successful enough in life. (I thought) everyone else that was going to be at this reunion was going to be a real high-flyer and a major achiever and that I was going to feel useless. I actually brought that up when I was on stage making a little speech and you could feel the pressure go out of the room, because we were all feeling the same way. Once that happened everyone relaxed and we all got on really well. Any message I would like to pass on is that we are all good enough, we all do things we regret, we all do things we are really proud of. There are a couple of things that I did at school that I still shudder when I think about them. It’s about learning and getting on with life. If anything, what I would have liked to say is that we are all brilliant in our own way.

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Catherine (Cate) Woodhouse (Ronald, Cl’86) was born on 1 June 1969 and died on 4 March 2021. Cate was born in Hay to Margaret and Wilson Ronald (Cu’51), becoming a little sister to Rob (P’80) and Alistair (Cu’81). Home was Nap Nap, at Maude on the Riverina planes, where Cate enjoyed an idyllic country childhood surrounded by animals and with freedom to roam. She attended the single-teacher Maude Primary School before heading off to GGS and Barwon House at the age of 11, to join her big brother Al, who was then in Year 12. After school, Cate went to Holmes Secretarial College and found work as a legal secretary before heading overseas in 1990 to study at the Prue Leith School of Food and Wine in London. A series of cooking jobs around the UK followed, her favourite being an eight-week stint on the Stanbury family’s lavish country estate in Dorset. Soon after returning to Wagga Wagga, Cate met Andrew Woodhouse. They married in 1995 and two children, Amelia (Millie) and Charlie followed. In 2007, the family built a house named Wahrooga on a small acreage east of Wagga Wagga. There Cate indulged her passion for gardening, over 14 years building a beautiful 2-acre garden. She also undertook charity work, including assisting a Yazidi family to resettle in Wagga, volunteering with the Children’s Medical Research Institute and working for the Amy St Claire Melanoma Trust. Cate was diagnosed with a brain tumour in March 2020, shortly after returning from a family holiday to New Zealand. Her particular type of tumour was very rare, one of only 13 cases globally, and she passed away exactly 12 months to the day from her diagnosis.

1989

Ben Rimmer (P’89) is the new CEO of Homes Victoria, a Victorian government agency which is delivering the Big Housing Build, the largest social and affordable housing building programme in Victoria’s history. The agency is working closely with industry, the not-for-profit sector and community members to fast-track new social and affordable housing. Ben returned to Melbourne in 2015 to become CEO at the City of Melbourne after spending three years as Associate Secretary in the Australian Government’s Department of Human Services. He previously worked for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, where he focused on health reforms, early childhood and workforce participation, among other issues. He has a long-standing interest in the not-for-profit sector and also worked in the London and Melbourne offices of the Boston Consulting Group. Ben is a graduate of The University of Melbourne with degrees in Arts/Law and of the University of Oxford, where he took an MBA with distinction. In 2014, he was a recipient of the James Wolfensohn Public Service Scholarship at Harvard.

Sarah Leighfield (Highton ‘87) was officially welcomed as a Judge of the County Court of Victoria in March. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, graduating with the Jessie Leggatt Scholarship, the EJB Nunn Scholarship for top student in the final honours class list, the Joan Rozanove QC Memorial Prize for highest ranked female Law student in the honours list, and the Supreme Court Prize. She completed her articles with Galbally & O’Bryan and joined the Bar in 2004 before becoming a magistrate in 2016. Since then, she has led the sexual offences and committal mention lists for the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, mainly sitting on crime and family violence matters. Sarah commenced her term in the Criminal Division of the County Court in June.

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Stephen Minas (Glamorgan ‘93) was recently elected Chair of the United Nations’ Technology Executive Committee, which analyses climate technology issues and develops policy recommendations, supporting countries to accelerate action on climate change and serve the 2015 Paris Agreement. Stephen is also a member of the Advisory Board of the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network, which provides technical assistance to developing countries. Stephen works as an Associate Professor of Law at China’s Peking University and is currently back in Melbourne after some years working overseas, including as a senior research fellow of the Transnational Law Institute of King’s College London and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL). My Anh Tran (A’93) was officially welcomed as a Judge of the County Court of Victoria in May. After graduating from GGS, My studied a double Science/Law degree at Melbourne University, focusing initially on Psychology and Maths before detouring briefly to Hydrology and Environmental Science. She also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford. My began her legal career as a researcher at the Court of Appeal, completed her articles with Freehill Hollingdale & Page, and went to the Bar in 2002. She worked as a Judicial Registrar in the Commercial Division of the County Court from 2015. During this time, My oversaw the expansion of judicial mediation in the Commercial Division, assisted with the creation of a pro bono protocol with the Victorian Bar, helped to reform case management procedures, and supported the implementation of electronic court files. My was appointed a Judge of the County Court in June 2020 and began in the Common Law Division in October last year.

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Mark McCarthy (Cu’97) has been shortlisted for the 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, which is a biennial exhibition showcasing the best of contemporary Australian painting that opened at the Geelong Art Gallery on May 29 and runs until August 22. This year’s Geelong Contemporary Art Prize received more than 600 entries from around the country. Established in the mid-1990s, previous winners of the $30,000 acquisitive award include 2016 GGS Artist-in-Residence Juan Ford and prominent Asian-Australian artist Kate Beynon. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2001, Mark has held 10 solo exhibitions and has been a finalist in numerous art prizes, winning the $20,000 John Leslie Art Prize for his landscape painting ‘Pigeon Cells’ in 2004 and the $25,000 Whyalla Art Prize in 2011 (which he then judged in 2013). He is a recipient of a New Work Grant from the Australia Council. You can follow Mark on instagram @markmccarthy811.

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Ariani Anwar (Fr’07) recently returned to Corio with colleagues from John Wardle Architects to inspect the School for Performing Arts and Creative Education (the SPACE) and The Handbury Centre for Wellbeing. Neither building existed when Ariani was at GGS (Ariana’s mother Margot Anwar was Head of Art from 2006-09). Ariana completed a Master of Architecture at Melbourne University’s Melbourne School of Design in 2017, following a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Hispanic Cultural Studies. She was a founding editor of Inflection, the annual student-run journal of the Melbourne School of Design. During her career at John Wardle Architects, Ariani has worked on two large projects: The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Ian Potter Southbank Centre) Project for Melbourne University and the Bendigo Law Courts.

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Steph Fett (Ga’07) has been appointed Senior Communications Adviser for leading Australian law firm Clayton Utz. Steph completed a Bachelor of Communications (Writing and Cultural Studies) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) before completing a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the College of Law. She was Environment Program Manager at News Corp Australia, where she managed News Corp’s national environmental sustainability program, 1 Degree, before working as a Communications Consultant at global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.

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Hugh McKay (M’11) has turned an interest in film and videography into a small business, establishing Barwon Heads-based Mountain Duck Media. Hugh began freelance video work while studying Product Design Engineering at Swinburne University, which has evolved into a small media business, filming weddings and creating commercial and social media content.

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MAKE YOURSELF VISIBLE Local Geelong lawyer Lauren Solomonson (Fr’12) urged current Year 10 students to seize their opportunities at this year’s Careers Discovery Day on Sunday 23 May. As keynote speaker, Lauren explained that

“opportunities will not miraculously appear”. “If you want something, you have to go out and get it,” she said. “It won’t just come to you. People won’t simply provide for you, consider you, or offer you anything unless you make yourself visible.”

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A lawyer with Geelong law firm Coulter Roache, Lauren graduated from Deakin University in 2019 with a double degree of Law and Arts (Media Communications) and has completed a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the College of Law. Lauren is also a Director of Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS), is the Marketing and Communications Director for the Deakin Law School Alumni Chapter and a member of Women in Local Democracy’s communications sub-committee. She has been awarded Deakin University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to University Life and the City of Greater Geelong’s Youth Award in the Leadership and Positive Role Model category. In 2020, she was a finalist in the Geelong Advertiser’s Women of the Year Awards, as well as the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards and Women in Law Awards. Lauren traced her early career success to not being afraid of her putting her hand up for new experiences and making the most of her opportunities, including her time at GGS – it was through attending the law session at Careers Discovery Day in 2010 that Lauren decided to pursue a career in the law. It was also where she met criminal barrister Adam Chernok (Cu’00), who became an important career mentor. Lauren encouraged current students to follow her footsteps and maximise the network of Old Geelong Grammarian volunteers at Careers Discovery Day. “I cannot stress to you enough how fortunate you are to have the opportunity to connect and network with this plethora of young, emerging leaders and thinkers in their respective fields,” she said. “I encourage you to ask as many questions as you can muster – be curious, be confident and seize the opportunity to make these important connections.”

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CAREERS DAY More than 35 young Old Geelong Grammarians returned to the School to mentor Senior School students at the annual Careers Discovery Day on Sunday 23 May. OGGs from a wide range of professions and industries participated in the day, with some travelling from New Zealand, Sydney and Canberra to attend. The OGGs talked to students and parents about their careers since leaving GGS, providing invaluable ‘real life’ information about deciding subjects, university courses and other career paths. Each provided a unique insider’s perspective of their chosen career, exposing students to an incredibly broad cross-section of career paths, from paramedic Tashie Montgomery-Hribar (He’09) to barrister Alex Campbell (FB’11), software engineer Kaitlin Walsh (EM’13), clinical pharmacist Angie You (A’11), cryptocurrency entrepreneur James Eddington (Cu’11), childcare assistant Morgan Temple (Ga’10), government adviser Marcus Sevior (P’12), aerospace engineer Johnathan O’Neil-Donnellon (P’12), agricultural sustainability officer Jessie Sleigh (Cl’14), designer Connor Forsyth (A’14) and embryologist Celia Talbot (Harbridge, A’08). “The number one influence on career choice is parents and family, both positively and negatively,” Head of Careers, Peter Craig, explained. “The OGGs are like an extended family, so we can widen that sphere of influence, and students have the opportunity to meet and discuss career paths with an investment banker or a research scientist or a nurse. They are exposed to all of these different careers, in small groups, and they are encouraged to ask the hard questions – so they hear the good, the bad and the ugly; because it is just as valuable to walk out of a session and say ‘well, I really don’t think that is for me’. It is a really valuable experience.”

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n his book Humankind, Rutger Bregman tells the story of Constand Viljoen, a former Chief of the South African Army and one of the leaders of the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People’s Front); a separatist group of white South Africans marshalling forces ahead of the 1994 general election, the first at which all South Africans would be entitled to vote. At that time there was genuine concern that the country might descend into civil war following the election, with the Afrikaner Volksfront boasting a force of 50,000 trained paramilitary personnel. In efforts to avoid that conflict, nine approaches were made to Viljoen for him meet with Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress. All invitations were declined. Abraham Viljoen, the estranged twin brother of Constand, decided that it was time for him to intervene and personally asked his brother to meet with Mandela. On this occasion Constand agreed. What transpired was a series of secret talks over a period of four months between Constand Viljoen and Nelson Mandela, during which Viljoen’s admiration and respect grew for the man he had once

considered a terrorist. Following those meetings, Viljoen made a number of overtures to his white supporters, at one point saying to the Broederbond annual assembly, that “if they (black South Africans) can fight for South Africa, they can vote for South Africa”. As a consequence of his representations, Viljoen is credited with averting the bloodshed that was otherwise expected and for leading the broad acceptance in the white community of universal suffrage and free elections in South Africa. While perhaps less globally significant, a conversation that was to have a far-reaching impact on Geelong Grammar took place at the end of a School Council meeting held on 7 June 1951. In the book Timbertop, published in 1967, Sir James Darling explained that the Council meeting had finished unusually early and rather than concluding the meeting, it was suggested that Council take the opportunity to discuss the future policy of the School. It seems that the School was at a point where it needed to take on more students in order to make it viable, but was constrained in what it could spend on increased accommodation

in the boarding houses to avoid overcrowding. Faced with this dilemma, Council asked Darling whether he had any thoughts on how the problem might be tackled. Darling had already started to develop a vague idea for a concept that would eventually become Timbertop, but he had not till then shared the idea with the Council and he was not entirely ready to do so. Unprepared as he was, he outlined his thoughts “in a form not so very different from what it (Timbertop) turned out to be”. At the conclusion of his explanation Darling was met with stony silence for several minutes and he suspected that he had been mistaken to raise the idea. In the end the silence was broken by Dick Latreille (Cu’26), an accountant who had been appointed to the Council with a view to restraining what were perceived to be the Headmaster’s extravagances. Latreille simply exclaimed: “Well that captures my imagination. Let’s do it”. Perhaps Timbertop might still have been raised by Darling at a later time when his ideas were more fully formed, but that LIGHT BLUE - GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL

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conversation in 1951 was to put the School on a path that would set it apart from all other schools in Australia and provide a unique and extraordinary experience for generations of students to come. Those of us fortunate enough to go through the Timbertop programme have all been influenced by the experience. A more recent conversation sparked the OGGs exploration of ways to make OGG Connect start a wider conversation in which OGGs might identify ways of helping other OGGs experiencing hardship. That conversation occurred between OGGA Committee member, Sandy McKenzie (FB’59), and one of his old school friends. Sandy was telling his friend about another old classmate who was experiencing struggling in the midst of the drought, to find sufficient feed for his livestock. After listening to Sandy and quite unprompted, the friend arranged to provide hay to their former classmate, a gesture that provided much needed relief and support. Unfortunately, the wonderful conversations and reconnections that occur at OGG reunions were silenced LIGHT BLUE - GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL

last year when reunions were postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, the OGG Business Lunches that were held on Zoom in 2020 in place of the usual business lunch were remarkably well attended by more than 400 OGGs from across Australia and overseas. The success of those online events has prompted the OGG Committee to look at including an online speaker series as a permanent feature of our annual calendar, to enable a much larger group of OGGs to participate in OGG activities and stay connected through technology. Reunions have resumed this year, with the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions. We have already held the 2016 five-year reunion, which proved to be the most strongly supported OGG reunion ever, with 140 of that cohort attending. Our hope is that all other reunions and events will also be uninterrupted and well attended throughout the year. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held in person in the Hawker Library this year after its Zoom debut last year. At the meeting a number of Honorary Life Memberships to the Old Geelong Grammarians Association

were awarded to long-serving staff members and also to Foundation Chair, Penny McBain, for her significant service to the School. It was wonderful to be joined at the meeting by so many Old Geelong Grammarians who also took the opportunity to view the Hawker Library anew, now resplendent with the book collection that Michael Collins Persse left to the OGGs. Ian Coltman (A’77) OGG President 1.

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Incoming Honorary Life Members of the Old Geelong Grammarians (L to R), Alliance staff member Barbara Quinn, Corio Chaplain, Reverend Howard Parkinson, Alliance staff member, Sharon Backwell, Employee Engagement Administrator, Pam Bennett, OGG President, Ian Coltman (A’77), Chair of the Foundation Board, Penny McBain, Corio teaching staff member, Deborah de Clifford and Head of the Visual Arts Department, Peter Bajer. OGG Committee members James Robinson (FB’77), OGG President, Ian Coltman (A’77), COGA President, Margie Gillett (Cordner, Clyde ’71) and Tristan Dwyer (Fr’01). Principal, Rebecca Cody delivered her Principal’s Report at the OGG AGM. Chair of the Biddlecombe Society, Charlie Sutherland (P’86) with Chair of School Council, Paddy Handbury (M’72).

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At the Adelaide reunion were: Lorraine Van Gemert (Lyon, The Hermitage ‘74), Yvonne Thomas (Little, The Hermitage ‘71), Barbara Rasmussen (McCracken, The Hermitage ‘64), Kelly Ainsworth (Finlayson, The Hermitage ‘65), Catriona Good (McDonald, Fr‘78), Sue Dobie (Ranken, The Hermitage ‘68) Front row L-R: Sheila Gunson (Hope, The Hermitage ‘54), Jenny Pope (Oldfield, The Hermitage ‘51) and Margaret Daly (Bland, The Hermitage ‘45)

HOGA Well, we Hermitage Girls do not let the grass grow under our feet, so to speak. We have already held three reunions in 2021 that were unfortunately postponed last year due to COVID-19. The 1970 50-year reunion, now 51-year reunion, was held on Saturday 20 March at the home of Pom Mackenzie (Russell, The Hermitage ‘70) in her beautiful garden on a wonderfully warm day. There were 27 ladies gathered together for their much delayed reunion, where many old friendships were renewed. Gleno (Jenny Bade (Glen, The Hermitage ‘70)) led a very boisterous rendition of “Cooee”; surprisingly, everyone remembered most of the verses!! The volume and the sound of excitement ringing through the garden showed that there was no lack of conversation and the bond of friendship, created over the fifty years ago at our wonderful school, was truly evident. Questions were asked when the next reunion was! On Thursday 15 April the first reunion was held in Adelaide, with many thanks to Yvonne Thomas (Little, The Hermitage ‘71) contacting as many old girls from the region as possible. Those that went had a wonderful catch up and, from the

constant conversation, you would never have guessed that not many knew each other. They all had the one common denominator - The Hermitage - and compared stories about wonderful events and characters at the school, including Slab as she crossed over many generations of girls. It was decided that another gathering should be held in the near future. The 1960 60-year reunion, which became the 61-year reunion, joined with the 1961 year group who were celebrating their 60-year reunion on Sunday 2 May. Many thanks to Ros Leigh OAM (Tayler, The Hermitage ’60) and Di McCann (Searle, The Hermitage’61) for organising it. There was a lovely gathering of ladies, none of whom had any problems making up for lost time. Some had not seen each other for many years, but as the conversation continued on, the years melted into oblivion. Unfortunately, there were quite a few apologies, but those present thoroughly enjoyed themselves and sang a rousing rendition of “Cooee”, agreeing that they had all had a wonderful catch up with their friends from years ago at school. On Friday 30 April we had a lovely luncheon at the Royal South Yarra Tennis Club. Many did not know each other, but that did not stop the constant conversation that ensued. We had 42 attend, so you can imagine the volume of the conversation which continued throughout the afternoon. We had a

diversity of age which was wonderful to see, and most from the Melbourne region, many of whom do not make it down the highway to functions in Geelong but love their school and the special friends they made during their school days. Thanks must go to Susie Donald (The Hermitage ’76) for organising this once again. We still have a number of other reunions to come this year, one of which is the 50-year reunion for the 1971 girls. More information will be provided shortly. The 1975 Year 10 girls get together will be held after Old Girls Day on Saturday 4 September. If any of you have skills in the Art and Craft area, we would love to hear from you as we are holding an exhibition and sales day at the Barwon Heads Hall, November 19-21, 2021. Please send an email to: hermitagegirls@gmail.com to express your interest in participating.

At the 1970 Reunion were: 1. Janny Molesworth (McIntyre) and Robina Tayler (Ecxell) 2. Di James (Cutts), Deb West (Blakiston), Julie Herd (Libby)

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WOMEN’S INTER-SCHOOL GOLF CHALLENGE CUP 2021 On Monday 19 April the WIGCC was held at Commonwealth Golf Club. We were all excited to be back competing after having to cancel last year after having a 90th celebration of the event the year before in 2019. Clyde finished a commendable 9th out of 29 teams. Interestingly, from 2nd to 12th placing, teams were only separated by a few points; a very exciting finish! Congratulations to Clarendon who won. Clyde was very ably represented by Eda Ritchie (Beggs, Clyde ‘59), Lesley Griffin (Vincent, Clyde ‘60) Susie Sutherland (Finlay, Clyde ‘59) and Janet Coombes (Dalrymple, Clyde ‘67). We congratulate them whole heartily and thank them for a great effort. $3,500 was raised from a jam stall and raffle and a cheque was sent to McAuley House, a new charity of choice of the committee. This charity supports mothers and children at risk from family violence in providing temporary housing. A very enjoyable day was had by all and we look forward to competing again next year at Commonwealth Golf Club.

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FUN CUP 2021 The Fun Cup is scheduled to be played at Sorrento Golf Club on Friday 8 October. We need to be represented by lots of players! Please make a note in your diary for this fabulous day of fun, golf and catchup! Any queries please contact Anna Tucker Email: annatucker8@outlook.com Mobile: 0408 540 252

At the Women’s Inter-school Golf Challenge Cup 2021 were: Janet Coombes (Dalrymple), Lesley Griffin (Vincent), Eda Ritchie (Beggs), and Susie Sutherland (Finlay)

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND OLD GIRLS DAY LUNCH

Clyde School 1971 50 Year Reunion

The COGA AGM 2021 will be held on Sunday 10 October at Royal South Yarra Tennis Club. Our guest speaker will be Di Whittakers (Moore, Clyde ‘63), sharing tales of her extensive travels in the Australian outback. Di has organised group itineraries for hiking, camping, driving and visiting numerous remote cattle and sheep stations over the years.

HOGA AGM and Old Girls’ Day Luncheon, Geelong Grammar School, Corio

Details and an invitation to the AGM will be in The Cluthan 2021, which will be posted out in early September. An AGM reply form will also be available online on the OGG page in the GGS website.

Saturday 26 June 2021

Saturday 4 September 2021 The Hermitage School 1977 Year Leavers - 1975 Year 10 Girls Reunion, after Old Girls’ Day

Saturday 4 September 2021 The Hermitage School 1971 50th Reunion

Saturday 11 September 2021 The Hermitage School Old Girls’ Association Golf Day, Barwon Heads

Monday 27 September 2021 COGA Fun Cup Golf, Sorrento Golf Club

1971 CLYDE 50th REUNION

Friday 8 October 2021

There will be a 50-year reunion for the Class of 1971 in Barwon Heads on the weekend of Saturday 26 June, hosted and organised by Angie Lyon (Rouse), Gillie Holyman and Tinks Urquhart (Austin), all Clyde ‘71. For details please contact lyona1@bigpond.com

COGA AGM and Luncheon, Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club

Sunday 10 October 2021 Tower Luncheon, Geelong Grammar School, Corio (for those who have left School 50 years ago or more) Saturday 6 November 2021 The Hermitage School Old Girls’ Association Christmas Concert and Luncheon, Newtown

Monday 6 December 2021

Di Whittakers (Moore) will be the COGA AGM 2021 guest speaker on 10 October

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Tom Sleigh (Cu‘16) and Alice Strapp (Cl‘16) Randy Deswandy (FB‘16) and Pier Cappetti (P‘16) Serena Clark (Timbertop ‘13), Lucy Johnson (EM‘16) and Ellie Falkenberg (He‘16) Josh Parrott (A‘16), Huw Williams (FB‘16) and Ned Elam (FB‘16) Harry Morrison (A‘16), Francesca Osborne (He‘16), Jayde Marshall (He‘16), Nic Neeson (A‘16) and Tanaya Hood (Ga‘16) Eliza Shearer (Ga‘16) and Rose Connelley (EM‘16) Noah Greed (Fr‘16) and Lewis Nicolson (Fr‘16) Connor Blundell (P‘16), Mickey Nicholls (P‘16) and Pier Cappetti (P‘16)

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Henry Thompson (Cu‘16), James Van Gemert (Cu‘16) and Digby Sharp (Cu‘16) Reunion organising committee Coco Hynes (Cl‘16), Anna Keenan (Cl‘16), Matt Kirkwood (FB‘16) and Tom Rafferty (A‘16) Grace Creati (Fr‘16) and Anna Keenan (Cl‘16) Gabe Mills-Connolly (P‘16) and Eddie Saunders (M‘16) Elise Giagnorio (Cl‘16), Phi Nadenbousch (Cl‘16) and Bella Temple (A‘16) Jodene Garstone (EM‘16), Isabella MacKirdy (EM‘16), India Wilson (EM‘16), Ben Hebbard

(EM‘16) and Winnie Packer (EM‘16) 15. Harry Keach (M‘16) and Tom Fischer (FB‘16) 16. Isabelle Ritter (Ga‘16) and Neisha Wallace (Ga‘16) 17. Gus Orford (A‘16), Eloise Winchester (He‘16) and Zoe Marshall (He‘16) 18. Pippa Arton-Powell (A‘16) and Eliza Chomley (Fr‘16) 19. Lucy Fletcher (Cl‘16) and Scott Maxwell (P‘16) 20. Jack Hardy (FB‘16) and Lachie Reynolds (Fr‘16) 21. Olivia Muir (Ga‘16), Georgie Gubbins (He‘16) and George Armytage (M‘16) 22. Peter Hatzoglou (A‘16) and Aswin Chow (Cu‘16)

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OGG V OGC GOLF DAY

The Old Geelong Collegians won back the trophy from the Old Geelong Grammarians after nine years at the OGG v OGC Golf Day at Barwon Heads Golf Club on Friday 5 March. Old Geelong Collegians (Average Par Score of -3.73) defeated Old Geelong Grammarians (Average Par Score -4.31) in the Schools Event for the first time since 2012 and now leads 20-16 over the 36 years of the Event. Over 60 OGG played in the event.

Individual and pair results were as follows: - Old Geelong Grammarians Individual Winner: Sandy Hunter +7 - Old Geelong Grammarians Individual Runner Up: Simon Reid +3

Congratulations to all who participated and a huge thank you to Sam Bingley (M‘94) and Sam Cole (OGC) who volunteer many hours of their time to organise and run this very successful event.

- Old Geelong Grammarians Pairs Winners: Sandy Hunter & Rob Landale +11 - Old Geelong Grammarians Pairs Runners Up: Sam Hayward & Simon Reid +10

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↓ Albert Weddell (OGC), Rob Hunter (M‘03), George Johnstone (OGC), Jack Bell (OGC) and Jake Ward (M‘05) 2. OGG v OGC Golf Day Organisers Sam Cole (OGC) and Sam Bingley (M‘94) 3. Jack Wall (M‘03), James Ratcliffe (OGC), Abel Farrell (FB‘03) and Nick Waters (OGC) 4. Mark Cashinella (Fr‘96) and Simon Jarman (OGC) 5. Simon Reed (P‘76), Harry Graham (OGC) and Sam Hayward (FB‘76) 6. Edward Plowman (Cu‘94) and John Weste (FB‘75) 7. Jimmy Legoe (M‘97), Henry Legoe (M‘99), Nick Casboult (OGC) and Tom Wettenhall (OGC) 8. Sandy Hunter (M‘71) and Lachie McGregor (Cu‘03) 9. Charles Happell (P‘78), Tony Le Deux (OGC) and Nigel Henham (FB‘76) 10. Hamish Cole (M‘94) and Jimmy Legoe (M‘97)

11. Tim Bingley (P‘62), Frank Herd (OGC) and David Hood (M‘71) 12. Richard Gudykunst (OGC), Marcus Woodhouse (FB‘94), Tom Chirnside (OGC) and Simon O‘Brien (A‘94) 13. The GGS team for the Women’s Inter-School Golf Challenge Cup were L-R Heidi Sutherland (Asimus, Ga‘86), Georgina Moore (Li‘74), Jen Clarke (Ryan, Je‘82) and Kirsten Scudamore (A‘80)

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92nd WOMEN’S INTER-SCHOOL GOLF CHALLENGE CUP

CALLING OGG WOMEN GOLFERS

Twenty nine teams of four, comprising past students of member schools which include Geelong Grammar, Clyde and The Hermitage, competed in the 18-hole stableford event on a perfect Autumn day, Monday 19 April, at the Commonwealth Golf Club, Oakleigh South. This year the event raised money for McAuley Community Services for Women. The charity supports women and children who have faced family violence and homelessness to take control of their lives.

We have a small list of women golfers who currently receive invitations to golf days but would like to expand that list. If you play golf and don’t already receive golf invitations, we would love to hear from you. Additional male players also welcome.

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The GGS team, organised by Sophie Holloway (Mann, Cl’83), comprised Jen Clarke (Ryan, Je‘82), Georgina Moore (Li‘74), Kirsten Scudamore (A‘80) and Heidi Sutherland (Asimus, Ga‘86) who enjoyed the day. Clarendon won the event with St Margaret’s second and Camberwell Anglican Girls Grammar School third.

Please email: oggs@ggs.vic.edu or telephone +61 3 5273 9338 to be added to the Golf contact list.

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McCartin (Fr’16), Jock Mitchell (FB’18), Mike Mortimer (P’19), Henry Muir (FB’20), Finn Orford (A’17), Oscar Philip (P’17) and Spencer Wells (M’18).

Bailey Austin (M’18), Joe Griffiths (Cu’17), Josh Hutley (Fr’13), Seb Hutley (Fr’17), Rupert Kemp (M’10), Matt Kirkwood (FB’16), Matt Planner (Fr’16), Lochie Radcliffe (P’17) and Will Sloss (M’12).

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Since the introduction of Women’s football at the Club in 2017, the representation and success has increased year on year. In 2019 our Women’s Reserves side tasted premiership success and they are hungry to replicate this in 2021. Numbers at training through the pre-season were encouraging and both the Women’s Seniors and Reserves have started the year strongly with both sitting nicely in third position on the ladder. Representing the Grammar in the side are Olivia Batton (Timbertop ’17), Soph Batton (EM’14), Emma Calvert (Cl’16), Phoebe Chirnside (Ga’14), Maddy Drew (Ga’15), Issy Fry (Ga’20), Ally Kirkwood (Cl’14), Brooke McKay (He’15), Georgina Perrignon (EM’13), Annabel Rafferty (A’14), Amelia Rule (EM’19), Georgie Rule (EM’13) and Vic Wetherall (EM’12).

Our Men’s reserves side continue to show the depth on offer at the Club and remain undefeated and top of the ladder. Again, there are many OGGs represented in the side including Tim Breadmore (P’83), Will Evans (M’12), Jock Grimshaw (FB’13), Joe Kemp (M’13) and Cam Sherwin (Fr’09) who will play his 100th game for the Club in the coming weeks. Zach Carroll (Fr’12) has put his hand up to coach our thirds and is doing an amazing job overseeing the side.

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After 12 months on the sidelines, it has been great to see the return of community sport. None more so than at Como Park in South Yarra, where the Old Geelong Football Club have put the disappointment of 2019’s relegation Being geographically disadvantaged back to Premier C Section behind us and optimism is high as we look to add to the Clubs compared to many other Melbourne Clubs 19 premierships in our 67 years of existence. with strong feeder schools, the transient nature of an Under 19 side has finally taken its toll. In recognising the importance of Eighteen months ago, the Club appointed past Melbourne AFL footballer Nathan Brown having an Underage side, we have fielded our inaugural Under 23 side this year and as Senior Coach. It was a long wait before the results speak for themselves. The side he was able to coach his first official game, competes against 9 other sides who all field but in April this finally eventuated with the senior teams in Premier A Section of the Men’s Seniors getting off to a great start VAFA, but our boys are dominating their with a 27-point round 1 win over Mazenod. opposition and sit undefeated at the top of Their winning streak continued for the next their ladder. There is a strong representation few games for the side before the top-ofof Old Geelong Grammarians within the the-table clash with Monash Blues in round group, including Henry Alexander (P’18), 5. Unfortunately, we were to experience our Bailey Austin (M’18), Alistair Bates (FB’17), first loss for the year, but still sit comfortably James Calanchini (A’16), Dan Ewing (FB’17), inside the top 4 on the ladder nearing the Nic Farrell (P’16), Tom Fowler (FB’18), James halfway mark of the season. Old Geelong Green (A’18), Luca Giusti (Cu’19), Ned Grammarians to have featured in the side so far include our captain Scott Dixon (A’13), Hellier (M’18), Tom Kebbell (Cu’18), Charles

We are always welcoming new players down to the Club, so any interest in playing, volunteering or supporting should be directed to oldgeelongfc@gmail.com . Outside of football, COVID also played havoc with the Old Geelong Netball and Cricket fixturing. We are about to recommence netball, so if there is any interest amongst the Old Geelong community please email oldgeelongnc@gmail.com. We will have more detail on the cricket ahead of the summer sports season commencing.

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The APS Past Students’ Golf Day was organised and hosted this year by the Old Geelong Grammarian representatives of the APS Golf Day committee and held at Victoria Golf Club, Cheltenham on Friday 14 May. The organisation and administration of the event is rotated around the 11 APS schools and this year it was the OGGs turn. In breaking with tradition, OGG reps Mark Avery (FB’97) and Jimmy Legoe (M’97) made the exceptional decision to change the format of the day so that ALL golfers would be playing in the morning as opposed to splitting the field to a morning and an afternoon session. The benefit of this format was that it brought all players together for the announcement of the winners/prizes at the luncheon afterwards. It also allowed for some networking between the school players in the clubhouse afterwards. Coinciding with the change in format, a conscious decision was made to spread the field to ensure that all eleven schools were in contention for the day’s main event, the Arthur Robinson Cup (the best 8 scores from each school were averaged to determine the winning school).

Melbourne hosting a few groups who then joined the luncheon afterwards. A huge congratulations to Mark Avery and Jimmy Legoe for an incredibly successful event – an exceptional event, you might say, which you would only expect when the Old Geelong Grammarians were in charge!

Calendar of Events Geelong Grammar School and Geelong Grammar Foundation Black Tie Dinner

Congratulations to the winners of the Arthur Robinson Cup, the Old Melburnians, who topped the leaderboard for the best average of their top 8 players scores. This was an almighty effort given that they fielded the equal smallest team (11 players) in this year’s event. The best score for Geelong Grammar School was from Nick Noall (-1).

GGS Corio Saturday 10 July 2021 OGG Canberra Gathering Wednesday 4 August 2021, 5.30pm OGG Sydney Gathering Friday 13 August 2021 1980 and 1981 40th Timbertop Reunion Saturday 18 September 2021

A huge thank you to Jimmy Legoe who handled all of the administration for the event and thank you also to all of the sponsors of the event.

1970 and 1971 50th Timbertop Reunion Saturday 25 September 2021

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Old Geelong Football Club Women’s Reserves team Will Sloss (M’12), Men’s Firsts James Green (A’18), Men’s Under 23 Brooke McKay (He’15), Women’s Firsts Ben Apted (A’94), Steve Collins (Old Carey), Chris Batrouney (Old Carey), Edward Plowman (Cu’94) 6. Rob Hunter (M’03), Jimmy Legoe (M’97), Tim Bayles (FB’99) and Lachie McGregor (Cu’03) 7. Hamish Cole (M’94), Harry Moore (FB’94), Sam Bingley (M’94) and Mark Avery (FB’97)

1980 40 Year Reunion, Melbourne Saturday 16 October 2021 1981 40 Year Reunion, Melbourne Saturday 23 October 2021 1991 30 Year Reunion, Melbourne Saturday 30 October 2021

The event booked out with a full field (144 golfers). The committee managed to cater for some of the overflow thanks to Royal

Tower Luncheon Saturday 6 November 2021 OGG Motoring Event Sunday 7 November 2021 2011 10 Year Reunion, Melbourne Friday 19 November 2021 2001 20 Year Reunion, Melbourne Saturday 20 November 2021 For enquires contact: Katie Rafferty, Alumni Manager E: oggs@ggs.vic.edu.au tel: +61 3 5273 9338

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e became one of the feel-good stories of the Australian summer, and a meme flooding the comments sections on the Melbourne Renegades’ and Big Bash League (BBL) social media accounts. When Peter Hatzoglou (A‘16) and brother Max effectively escaped Melbourne’s lockdown as the prospect of a delayed start to the Premier Cricket season loomed large, few could have predicted how the summer would play out. “A player agent contacted us regarding an opportunity with the South Australia Cricket Association,” Peter explained.

“At the time, uni was online and my work in the finance industry was remote. Max and I figured that we had nothing to lose by going to South Australia.” They joined Prospect Cricket Club, in part due to a history that has seen the likes of Sir Garfield Sobers, Nathan Lyon and Greg Blewett represent the club. On November 7, the pair combined for a partnership of 155; the largest seventh-wicket partnership in the history of Prospect Cricket Club. Peter also took three wickets in the match and, one month later, the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League announced they had signed him as an injury replacement player.

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The Renegades opened their season against the Perth Scorchers. Peter was thrown the ball in the fourth over and was dispatched for three boundaries by Australian short-form specialist Ashton Turner. He returned in the ninth over and, with the first ball of his second over, struck former Test opener Cameron Bancroft on the pads. What came next became a hallmark of the BBL season– a whole-hearted appeal, a raised finger from the umpire and an exuberant celebration accompanied by a smile from ear-to-ear. He claimed the prized wicket of Mitch Marsh the following over and the legend of Peter had begun. Peter finished with 17 wickets from 12 matches in the BBL before returning to South Australia, earning a call-up to the South Australia Redbacks side in the national 50-over competition; he is the first OGG since James Sutherland to play first class/ List A cricket in Australia. On debut he faced Western Australia and two of the most talented cricketers of the past 20 years at opposite ends of their careers – Shaun Marsh and Cameron Green – who combined for a 156-run partnership. Peter finished with figures of 0-71 from eight overs. “It certainly was a baptism of fire,” Peter said of his 50-over debut. The experienced reinforced the heightened need for consistency in the one-day game, as opposed to T20 cricket. “I created opportunities and I felt like there were some really great periods of play.” ‘The umpire isn’t going to change their decision’ is one of the most used (and most accurate) cliches in all of sport. It didn’t ring true for Peter on debut against WA, however, as he had his appeal for caught behind against Sam Whiteman affirmed by the umpire before the official quickly reversed their decision. “I’ve played a lot of cricket and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an umpire change his decision,” former Test quick Stuart Clark said on the commentary. “It was a funny debut,” Peter said. “The umpire was right to correct himself and go back on his decision. I suppose I had a few go my way during the BBL. It works in cycles I suppose.” Despite a whirlwind six months packed with highlights and memories created with two organisations in two different states, Peter enters the off-season in a state of uncertainty. At the time of writing, he doesn’t have a contract with the Renegades, nor SACA, for the 2021-22 season. Outgoing Melbourne Renegades coach Michael Klinger is clearly a big fan of Peter and hopes to see him get further opportunities. “It would be really good for South Australia and for him if he got offered a contract and got the outside help as well, which he’s never had,” Klinger said. “He’s never had regular physio, he’s never had regular sports science strength and conditioning coaching which is only going to help and allow him to be a bit more agile in the field by getting him fitter and stronger.”

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Charlie Gill (A’19) is founder and editor of North Fitzroy’s new community newspaper, The Rotunda. Scheduled to have a monthly print run of 6,000 copies distributed throughout North Fitzroy, the eight-page newspaper takes its name from a rotunda located in North Fitzroy’s Edinburgh Gardens. The content of its launch issue includes a pub crawl of North Fitzroy’s “finest” establishments, articles about the Fitzroy Football Club and Piedimonte’s supermarket development, and an interview with local musician Clare Bowditch. “It’s just about making something entertaining and independent that talks to you and your neighbour equally,” Charlie explained.

2020

Sophie Ward (Cl’20) represented Australia at Under 21 level in June in the most unconventional of circumstances. Sophie was selected in the Australian Under 21 Women’s Coxed Eight after a successful racing season with the Melbourne University Boat Club and an impressive showing at the National Rowing Championships in Tasmania in March. The Under 21 team would typically compete in a Trans-Tasman series with New Zealand, however Rowing Australia outlined at the time of selection that there would be no overseas travel for teams in 2021 (besides those crews heading to the Olympics). A compromise was reached, and the Under 21 crew was set to compete alongside the Australian Under 23 crews in Adelaide at a regatta held concurrently with the World Cup 3 event in Sabaudia, Italy to give the Australian Olympic rowers an opportunity to compete against quality opposition ahead of Tokyo. Of course, as has been the case for the past 18 months, COVID-19 had other plans and Victoria’s May-June lockdown meant that Sophie, along with three other members of the crew based in Victoria, were unable to travel to Adelaide for the regatta. Credit to Rowing Australia, who facilitated for the crew to compete as a four on the Patterson River in line with the simultaneous Regatta in Adelaide, ensuring they had the opportunity to wear the green and gold on the water. While the lead-up to the Rowing World Cup event was somewhat chaotic, Sophie had the wonderful experience in the lead-up to travel to Sydney and train under the watchful eye of National team coaches and former Olympic coaches. Sophie was a member of the School’s Girls’ 1st VIII in 2019 and 2020, winning the Heads of the River in 2019 and a Bronze medal at the National Rowing Championships in the same year.

Peter is optimistic that in this era with three forms of cricket and an assortment of T20 leagues overseas, the opportunities will come. “Cricket at the top level is cutthroat and I’m not sure if I’ll be a state cricketer or a T20 circuit cricketer,” Peter said. “I’m even considering a return to my career in financial services whilst taking time off to play Big Bash. I have options. Either way, I’m really excited for what the future holds.”

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“For me to get into the Renegades squad, two leg-spinners got injured. How often does that happen? Never.”

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ivided loyalties and the nuances of female relationships are the key themes running through the debut novel of Rebecca Starford (Fr’01). Centred around a female protagonist, Evelyn Varley, who is approached by MI5 to infiltrate a Nazi ring operating in early wartime London, The Imitator (published as An Unlikely Spy in overseas markets) offers a gripping and suspenseful plot supported by beautifully rendered historical detail. The narrative moves between the late 1930s, when Evelyn and two friends from schooldays are embarking on their adult lives, and the late 1940s, when their friendship lies in ruins. The nature of school-based female friendships, and their effects on adulthood, was explored unflinchingly by Starford in her previous book, Bad Behaviour, a memoir of bullying and boarding school, in which she confronted the excruciating experience of trying to fit in while coping with feelings of isolation and homesickness. In The Imitator, her characters’ thoughts and feelings, and subsequent behaviours, are moulded in part by their experience of boarding school, and of being immersed in an all-female environment. Evelyn, in particular, experiences school as an outsider, a scholarship kid who feels the need to imitate the status quo in order to fit in. She learns to hide her true self, and in doing so perfects the art of espionage. A strength of the book is unquestionably Starford’s construction of place, the result of dedicated historical research meaning that details such as interior settings, clothing, London streets, and authentic sights and smells leap off the page and envelop the reader in an atmospheric experience. The political themes that run through the narrative are at once subversive and mesmerising, and in responding to their circumstances, Starford’s characters avoid stereotypes to reveal complexities and flaws that keep the reader hooked. The combination of a wartime setting, in itself engrossing subject matter, and a suspenseful and intelligent plot, is exhilarating. Rebecca Starford is the co-founder and publishing director, along with Hannah Kent, of the literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and a former editor at Text Publishing and Affirm Press. She teaches creative writing at the University of Queensland where she is also a PhD candidate.

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he long-awaited biography of former art master, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (staff 1942–57), was launched at the Museum of Brisbane on 16 April. Several people with a connection to GGS were in attendance, among them Head of Visual Arts Peter Bajer, the book’s editor and current staff member Sophie Church, and Julia Ponder (Cl’69), daughter of former teacher John Ponder (staff 1934–65). Written by Resi Schwarzbauer with the close support of Hirschfeld-Mack’s grandson Chris Bell, the biography has been more than two decades in the making. For the first time, it reveals the full story behind Hirschfeld-Mack’s arrival in Australia on the notorious HMT Dunera, his two-year internment as an enemy alien, and his subsequent employment at Geelong Grammar School due to the intervention of Sir James Darling (Headmaster 1930-61). At Geelong Grammar, Hirschfeld-Mack’s students had the extraordinary experience of being imbued with the principles of art and design that he himself had learned as a student at the Weimar Bauhaus. The testimonies of several Old Geelong Grammarians, all of whom retained a lifelong appreciation of their former art master, enrich the three chapters on Geelong Grammar, which make for fascinating reading for anyone associated with the school during this period – or indeed anyone connected with the arts at Geelong Grammar today. Riveting, inspiring and deeply moving, the book is above all a celebration of Hirschfeld-Mack’s extraordinary life as so much more than a Bauhaus artist – teacher, musician, inventor, performer, pacifist – a man of compassion and resilience. Ultimately, his story is a plea for creativity and enterprise and a stirring testament to our common humanity. Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More than a Bauhaus artist, published by HistorySmiths, is available from the GGS uniform shop and online at www. historysmiths.com.au/shop, priced at $60. It includes more than 250 colour and black-and-white illustrations. “The centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019 prompted fresh interest in those men and women whom Gropius inspired to remake artistic practice. This important and profusely illustrated biography, the first major work on HirschfeldMack written in English, is a tribute to the enduring power and significance of Bauhaus ideals and to a remarkable soul. Not one to seek acclaim, Hirschfeld-Mack privileged the importance of art and creativity over the conceits of the individual. Nearly sixty years after his death, Schwarzbauer’s fine book gives him his due.” Seumas Spark, Australian Book Review, June 2021

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Kate England (A’03) and Mihai Avram, a daughter, Mia Elena Avram, on 4 April 2019 Camilla née Walford (Cl’05) and Tim Dowling (Fr’03), a son, Alexander Syme McMillan, on 5 February 2021 Abigail and Harley England (A’04), a daughter, Ebony Mae, on 11 May 2020

Robin Pease née Root (Clyde 1946-52) on 20 December 2020

Robert Anthony (Anthony) CrichtonBrown (1957-61) on 10 January 2021

Merilyn de Guerin Mortimer Pedrick née Marsh (Clyde 1954-56) on 24 December 2020

Glenn Edward Feeney (1975-80) on 14 April 2021 Rothes Leslie Parnham Felton née Phillips (The Hermitage 1943-55) on 25 December 2019

Anthony Adrian (Tony) Pickett-Heaps (1949-60) on 23 February 2021 Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps (1949-58) on 11 April 2021

Richard Underwood (Dick) Felton (1945-52) on 22 March 2020

John Hampden Read (1957-62) on 27 March 2020

John Roderick Douglas (Rod) Fraser (1956-67) on 7 March 2021

Julie Margaret Richards née Rich (The Hermitage 1952-63) on 17 February 2021

Marion née Mackinnon (Cl’01) and Daniel Goss, a daughter, Rosie Elizabeth, on 16 April 2020

David Peter Gale (1944-48) on 16 August 2019

Harold William Riggall (1948-59) on 11 May 2021

Stephanie Bower (He’04) and Simon Harders, a son, Hugo Terrence, on 10 February 2020

Rosemary Grant née Hallowes (Clyde 1946-52) on 8 January 2021

Georgia Maddern (He’11) and Patch Garnaut, a daughter, Marigold Olivia, on 5 April 2021

Alice née Redwood (Cl’00) and Paul Kempton, a son, Rupert on 22 October 2020 Louise Laing and Austin Laing-Herbert (P’05), a son, Lucas, on 20 May 2021 Sarah and Jack McPherson (FB’07), a son, William Timothy, on 28 February 2021 Alice née England (A’01) and Modise Modise, a daughter, Violet Thenbi, on 27 September 2016 Tamara and Nick O’Hare (Fr’07), a daughter, Audrey Louise, on 5 December 2020

James Austin Dawson (Jamie) Gatehouse (1950-57) on 12 March 2021

Sheila Haddow née Dalrymple (Clyde 1935-39) on 9 February 2021 Geoffrey Norman (Jo) Hart (1954-59) on 26 December 2020 Lindsay William Mason Heath (1942-49) on 3 January 2021 Paul Joseph Hobart (1969-78) on 2 February 2021 Peter Alan Varley Hudson (1957-62) on 14 December 2020 Peter John Kennison (1940-46) on 5 January 2021 June Patricia (Patsy) Kirk née Tallis (Clyde 1940-44) on 13 February 2021

Michael William Saffin (1956-59) on 7 March 2021 Duncan Sanderson (1959-62) on 29 April 2021 Rafe Cattarns Slaney (1946-49) on 22 March 2018 Glenn David Spence (1955-59) on 12 March 2021 Lucas Randall Shao Yi Teo (2013-14) on 2 January 2021 William Mark (Bill) Waters (1966-71) on 24 January 2020 Rosemary Elizabeth Weatherly née Russell (Clyde 1939-45) on 19 April 2021 Kenneth (Ken) Webb Ware (1938-44) on 2 May 2021

David Richard Pelham Lester (1947-58) on 31 March 2021

Constance Roma (Roma) Whitcroft née Smith (The Hermitage 1931-40) on 1 March 2021

Olivia Fleetwood (He’07) and Henry Weddell, a daughter, Marigold Elisabeth Fleetwood Weddell, on 1 April 2021

Jillian (Jill) Loane née Botterill (The Hermitage 1953-56) on 19 July 2020

Patricia Valentine (Tish) Will née Tuckett (The Hermitage 1952-59) on 25 April 2017

David Brian Mackey (1948-52; Staff 1964-93) on 5 December 2020

Catherine Gaie (Cate) Woodhouse née Ronald (1981-86) on 4 March 2021

Deaths

Denys Ingraham McCullough (1941-45) on 6 March 2021

Susan Louise Woods née Horne (Clyde 1948-52, Clyde Staff) on 4 June 2021

Lizzie née Alder (Cl’03) and Charles Sullivan, a daughter, Claudia Elizabeth Diana, on 18 December 2020

Jane Adams (Clyde 1974-75) on 11 November 2020 John Christopher (Christopher) Armstrong (1944-48) on 23 March 2021 Rex Alexander Armytage (1945-48) on 25 January 2021 Joseph Stuart (Joey) Atkins (2008) in October 2020 Elisabeth (Beth) Barkman née Piccoli (Clyde 1953-54) on 8 March 2021 Rosemary Bentley née Smith, (The Hermitage 1934-44) on 7 January 2021 Ivor Gordon Bowden (1940-43) on 23 April 2021 George Owen John (John) Capper (195054) on 18 January 2021 Mary Champion de Crespigny née Bartram (Clyde 1939-42) on 20 March 2021 Lesley Margaret (Rab) Cole née Smith (The Hermitage 1925-35) on 24 May 2021 John David Corbet (1958-1963) on 11 April 2021 Alistair Craik (1978-83) on 14 March 2021

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Donald Cameron (Cameron) McNaughton (1944-47) on 18 March 2021 James Henry Dyer (Jim) Middleton (1943-47) on 17 September 2019 John William Mitton (1947-52) on 7 April 2020 Georgina Mary Molesworth née Bieri (Clyde School 1964-68) on 26 May 2021 Arthur Malcolm (Malcolm) Morris (1929-37) on 29 December 2020 Jean Margaret McGregor Morris née Dowsett (The Hermitage 1943-46) on 15 September 2020 Adam Boyd (Boyd) Munro (1955-60) on 13 March 2021 Diana Neilson née Tyrwhitt-Drake (The Hermitage 1939-50) on 30 October 2020 Michael Charles Nelson (1966-70) in October 2019 John King Nixon (1948-53) on 11 March 2021 Philip John Nott (1955-67) on 22 September 2020

Marriages Hugh Cameron (M’09) married Isabel Coburn (Ga’09) on 7 December 2019 Angus Dowling (Fr’06) married Isabelle Dixon on 19 March 2021 Angus Drysdale (Fr’06) married Alice Goldsworthy on 20 December 2019 Harley England (A’04) married Abigail Stanbridge on 9 February 2019 Kate England (A’03) married Mihai Avram on 16 December 2017 Venetia Farley (Cl’11) married Sam Archibald on 14 December 2019 Claire Francis (He’08) married Oliver Scheiber on 1 May 2021 Chris Gatenby (M’02) married Elizabeth Calvert on 21 November 2020 Julian Hollis (Ge’62) married Susan Coulter (The Hermitage ‘63) on 14 October 2018

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William Henry (Bill) Crowther (1938-45) on 23 September 2020

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647 donors supported our 2021 Giving Day – raising $1.2 million in 24 hours for life-changing scholarships. Now, even more students from rural and regional areas can embrace the opportunities of a Geelong Grammar School education.

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